Menus-Plaisirs theatre

Menus-Plaisirs theatre was located in the rue Bergère. The Opéra was obliged to have recourse to this limited facility after the devastating fire at the second Palais-Royal on 8 June 1781 because the actors of the Comédie-Française were using the salle des Machines in the Tuileries (see seventeenth-century volume for Tuileries). The stage of the Menus-Plaisirs theatre was quite narrow, and only works requiring a small number of actors could be performed there. Programs by the Opéra began in the…