The spectator boxes in the hall of the Paris Opéra Garnier are subdivided into the ground floor or parquet boxes that are recognizable behind the parquet seats , the rooms designated as first, second, third and fourth boxes after the four tiers of the corresponding upper floors from bottom to top and the rooms in front of the stage above The honor or proscenium boxes located in the orchestra pit , of which the right one, originally for Napoléon III. intended imperial box can be seen. The latter is - outside the picture - opposite a box of honor intended for Empress Eugenie and her entourage. In halls that do not have proscenium boxes, the middle box of the first box serves as a box of honor. The raised area of the parquet is called the balcony .
In the Brockhaus Bilder-Conversations-Lexikon of 1838 it says, Loge “is what they call the corridors running around the walls of a theater on the walls up to the stage and after this too open corridors”. In addition, Meyer's Large Conversation Encyclopedia of 1908 states that boxes are "a cabinet open to one side ... the spectator cells separated by partition walls, with separate entrances and only a small number of seats." A distinction is made here between ground floor boxes and proscenium boxes etc. Krünitz (1858) explains: "Such lodges are divided into lodges of the first, second, etc. etc. range, depending on their location and convenience because of their advantages over each other."
