Le Peletier , a theatre located in the Paris street of the same name, cut through the property of the banker Delaborde in 1786. The theatre was erected during 1821 and 1822 to provide a facility for the Opéra, which found itself obliged to leave the salle Louvois after the duke de Berry’s death. The architect Deleret placed it on the site where the duke de Choiseul’s mansion and the Gramont property had been situated. The opera house was built hurriedly because it was thought that the company…