Wednesday, June 27, 2012

The new Comédie Française


You may have noticed the beautiful roses in the foreground, but the most interesting part in this photo is... the wooden building in the background! It's actually the present Comédie Française, the only state theater in France, founded in  1680 and where famous French play writer/actor Molière used to perform. The original theater, located at Place Colette (in front of which I took this photo), is currently being renovated, and in the meantime they built this temporary one that they installed in the nearby Palais Royal - and that you can see in this photo...

11 comments:

  1. Those are beautiful. I finally have a trip to Paris booked for August - so I am enjoying looking at old posts picking out places to visit. Fun!

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  2. What a lovely shot....and the roses in the garden are so beautiful. Ahh...summer in Paris!

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  3. Ah que j'adore La Comédie Française !

    At university, I majored in theatre and minored in French, so for me, it's the best of both worlds!

    Thanks for the lovely photo :)

    -buzzgirl

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  4. @Buzzgirl Did you perform in a French play?

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  5. In the US, if this was a temporary building at a school we'd call it a "portable". But none where ever as nice as this!

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  6. Beautiful capture...would you look at those roses!!!

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  7. Amazing. Just where in the jardin du Palais Royale is this temporary building? (sorry, no time to check my grammar!)

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  8. Wow! The place is completely transformed.

    Roses aside, I still prefer the way it used to be. Glad this is just temporary.

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  9. Seriously? They built a whole theater in the Palais Royal? Quelle dedication!

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  10. I must admit, the roses are the most interesting part to me! (It's orange. I dislike orange intensely. Besides, can you really trust a word that nothing rhymes with?)

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