Napoleon Bonaparte decided to build a
Latin theatre on the street de Voss-Saint-
Victor, in the very place where once
stood a fortress known as the "wall of
Philippe Auguste." The theatre was
opened in 1803. The atmosphere of the
Literary Salon that lived on the ground
floor of the theatre was from the human
comedy Onore de Balzac, which was fed
and nourished by all literature, political
discussion and poetics. All unanimously
called this salon a "literary watering-
can"; where often met the great writers
of the time, such as Balzac, of course,
the father and son of Alexander Dumas,
and later Prosper Merimee ... however,
the theatre was completely destroyed
during the revolution.
Paris begins to recover to its former
beauty in preparation for the World
Exhibition of 1889. Leave these ruins can
only be five hundred meters from Notre
Dame! So, like Phoenix, our theatre will
be reborn from the ashes. For this, Paris
is now calling upon the famous ...
Gustave Eiffel!
PARADIS LATIN
Sunday, January 20, 1889: the theatre opens its
dairies named Paradi Latin ... its success was
immediate: crowds of spectators gathered here every
evening. Unusual shows and ballets were created,
and it was a complete triumph.
In this new fashionable theatre, the great
"fortuneteller of luck" Moulin Rouge was released,
which will be released in the autumn of 1889, and
"Sofa Japaneseumis".
In the early twentieth century, a newly fashionable
area of Paris's nightlife - Montmartre. Everyone
rushed there!
Financial difficulties were unavoidable, and the
cabaret had to close its doors several times ... In 1930
the building was bought by Charles Leun, who
converted it into a workshop for making glassware.
At the beginning of the Second World War,
the business was frozen, and the building was
abandoned. Forty years later, Jean Kriegel, a real estate
developer, buys a property that occupies buildings 28
and 28 bis rue du Cardinal Lemoine. He intended to turn
the property into an apartment.
During the look around, the new owner examined the
room behind the room and, to his surprise, found
eighteen thousand test tubes and Petri dishes. The
remnants of the previous activities were left by the
former owner everywhere. Even more surprising is that
after the destruction of the partitions and suspended
ceilings, an impressive metallic structure created by
Eiffel was exposed ...! On its walls, scattered fragments
of posters and pieces of scenery are scattered.
Among them, the proud owner discovered a poster ...
Paradis Latin. Jean, learning that he became the owner
of the legendary cabaret, decided to rejoice legendary
institution. And on November 14, 1977, the cabaret Le
Paradis Latin is reborn again from the ashes and
forever!