Bel-Air

Bel-Air. After Jean-Baptiste Lully purchased Pierre Perrin’s monopolistic license to produce operatic programs, he refused to have anything to do with the salle de la Bouteille, where Perrin’s unscrupulous partners were continuing to operate for their own profit. He opened a new facility at the Béquet tennis court located on a piece of property known as Bel-Air and situated in the rue de Vaugirard opposite the Luxembourg palace. Thus, his theatre came to be known as the salle du Bel-Air during…