THOSE TYCOONS FINANCED THE SHOWS BY RESERVING THE MOST EXPENSIVE SEATS
They might use them for their families or visitors from the provinces, on Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Fridays for a year...
By Honoré Daumier
But the main attraction was dinner on those nights in a salon next to the now sealed-off door the last page shows. They reached it through an entrance created for them alone, after leaving their carriages in the huge space next to their rotunda.
There leaders of industry, commerce and culture connected, and met the most venerable nobility in a context as intimate and exclusive as that of a salon.
The dinners took place while awaiting the end of the ballet that took place after the opera's second act.
This view,
from a window of the passage on the last page,
is the only way to perceive the void.
More later.
The rectangles cover tables of what is now a restaurant.
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