Boulevard du Temple

le Boulevard du Temple Boulevard in Paris' third arrondissement, named for the Knights Templar, whose place of worship was there in the 1300s. In 1789, immediately after the revolution, sprang up six popular theaters, home of a some-hwat simplistic genre, distinct from those »serious« dramas that attempted lofty ideas. The boulevard had already been, pre-revolution, a fashionable promenade for elegant ladies and their escorts, out to see how the »other half« (in reality, more like 99 percent)…