Théâtre des Variétés [SEP] located in the administrative territorial entity
Théâtre des Variétés
The Théâtre des Variétés is a theatre and "salle de spectacles" at 7-8, boulevard Montmartre, 2nd arrondissement, in Paris. It was declared a monument historique in 1975.
History.
It owes its creation to the theatre director Mademoiselle Montansier (Marguerite Brunet). Imprisoned for debt in 1803 and frowned upon by the government, a decree of 1806 ordered her company to leave the Théâtre du Palais-Royal which then bore the name of "Variétés". The decree's aim
the post. However, his last administrative act as director - choosing one of his most witty collaborators, his friend Dumanoir, as his successor - was also a happy one for the theatre. Dumanoir completed Bayard's work, allowing the théâtre des Variétés to regain its forgotten splendours.
Bayard also published articles in several literary journals, and poems and verse dramas in several anthologies. Louis Hachette published Bayard's "Théâtre choisi", en 12 volumes, in-12, 1855-1858.
In 1837 Bayard was named a