La Bouteille

La Bouteille was an indoor tennis court built during the reign of Henri IV in the rue Mazarine. When Louis XIV granted the abbé Perrin permission on 28 June 1669 to stage operas in his kingdom, the entrepreneur and his confident associates bought and remodeled the jeu de paume de La Bouteille to serve as their theatre. The corporation opened their opera house in March 1671 with Pomone. This work was quite successful, but the members of the company fell to arguing among themselves, and Lully…