Salle de la Bouteille

"Hôtel de Guénégaud (theatre)" redirects here. For other uses, see Hôtel de Guénégaud.
Plaque at the intersection of the rue Jacques-Callot and the rue Mazarine: "Here was erected the Salle du Jeu de Paume de la Bouteille, where the first opera of Paris opened on 16 [sic] March 1671."[1]
Future location of the Jeu de Paume de la Bouteille marked in blue on the map of Gomboust (1652)
Presumed plan of the theatre near the Passage du Pont-Neuf (1886)[2]

The Salle de la Bouteille[3] or Salle du Jeu de Paume de la Bouteille, later known as the Hôtel [de] Guénégaud or Guénégaud Theatre,[4] was a 1671 theatre located in Paris, France, between the rue de Seine and the rue des Fossés de Nesle (now 42 rue Mazarine, at its intersection with the rue Jacques Callot).[5] It was across from the rue Guénégaud, which ran behind the garden of a townhouse formerly known as the Hôtel de Guénégaud on the quai de Nevers. The theatre was the first home of the Paris Opera and in 1680 became the first theatre of the Comédie-Française. It closed in 1689 and was later partially demolished and remodeled for other purposes.

  1. ^ The premiere was actually on 3 March 1671 (Sadler 2001, p.180).
  2. ^ Nuitter & Thoinan 1886, after p. 146.
  3. ^ La Salle 1875, pp. 9–20.
  4. ^ Clarke 1998, pp. 13–14. Clarke refers to the theatre as the Hôtel Guénégaud, with the particule "de" omitted, and states this form is particularly prevalent in the more recent literature; Forman 2010, p. 127, uses the name Théâtre de Guénégaud; Wiley 1960, p. 320, indexes it under "Guénégaud, Hôtel (Théâtre) de"; Lecomte 1905, p. 33, uses "Hôtel Guénégaud (théâtre de l')".
  5. ^ Chappuzeau 1674 (1875), pp. 156–157; translated by Howarth 1997, p. 121.