Tuileries, Salle des Machines

Tuileries, Salle des Machines. Louis XIV gave the order to complete the Tuileries, located opposite the Louvre, and the Salle des Machines was among the units of the palace finished in the seventeenth century by Le Vau and his son-in-law d’Orbay. The world premiere of Psyché by Corneille, Lully, Molière, and Quinault was staged in this theatre in 1671, but it was not until 24 January 1764 that the Opéra moved into the Salle des Machines, situated between the pavilion de l’Horloge and the…