#he haunted the musical area of his demise... and did ghostly taxes! :o
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britishchick09 · 3 years ago
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this is salle le peletier, the home of the paris opera until it burned down in 1873. erik describes the fire in the rewrite and that made me wonder... would be have been able to see it from palais garnier? to find that out, i looked up the opera house’s former address and found this:
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there’s the address! i looked it up in google maps and...
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it’s only 9 minutes away from palais garnier so erik could’ve seen the fire in the distance! here’s a closer look at what stands there today:
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there’s nothing on the building indicating that this was the former opera house’s home, but nowadays it houses an investment bank called bpifrance
...but what was it during the rewrite’s time of 1888/89? ;)
to find that out, i went to gallica, a french newspaper site. i looked up ‘12 rue le peletier’ so i could get exact results and found a clipping from 1887:
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it translates to ‘subscribers to colonne concerts are informed that they can collect their coupons at the headquarters of the administration, 12 rue le peletier, from wednesday 12 current, every day, from two to five o'clock‘
colonne refers to the colonne orchestra, which was founded in 1873 (coincidence, i think not!) by edouard colonne, a famous conductor and violinist, during the 1850s and 60s he was the first violinist at the paris opera! ;)
so the former opera house was the home of an orchestra during the late 1880s. erik would love that! but i decided to search for 1888 clippings just to make sure. that’s when i found this:
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this clipping says ‘the placement thus comes to 6.53% with the redemption premium / we underestimate: saturday, october 6, 1888 / in paris, at the parisian bank, 7, rue chauchat and 12, rue le peletier’
well this is different! nearly a year later, it’s become a bank! banque parisienne was founded a year after the slp fire and they ran into liquidity problems by the late 1880s, but were saved by another bank called societe generale, whose headquarters are right next door to palais garnier
i decided to look up 1889 clippings and found this:
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this translates to ‘the singing lesson of mrs. edouard colonne, 12, rue le peletier’
there’s colonne again! madame colonne was eugenie vergin, edouard’s wife who was a popular singing teacher in paris and she played marguerite in ‘la damnation de faust’! slight poto reference there ;)
but now we have 12 rue le peletier being colonne’s headquarters/his wife’s singing school and banque parisenne! at first i was confused, but then i remembered something on google maps...
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there are two occupants of the building! :o
it’s very possible that in 1888/89, the former site of salle le peletier was home to banque parisienne/colonne city just like how it’s home to bpifrance/foncia in 2021/22! :D
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