Keywords: Two projected site sites for the new Paris Opera by Barnout - Gallica 2014.jpg Paris Opera the first overlapping the site of Salle Le Peletier the company's theatre at that time and the second on the Boulevard des Capucines where the Palais Garnier would soon be built The plan also shows two proposed alternative routes for a broad imperial avenue running north from the Louvre to the new opera house The second at first referred to as the Avenue Napoléon corresponds to the present-day Avenue de l'Opéra http //gallica bnf fr/ark /12148/btv1b530620713 r langEN Gallica Hippolyte Barnout born 1816 http //books google com/books id hhxLAAAAYAAJ dq 1816 20 22barnout 20hippolyte 22 pg PA30 1856 “1857 Mead Christopher Curtis 1991 Charles Garnier's Paris Opéra Architectural Empathy and the Renaissance of French Classicism p 57 New York The Architectural History Foundation Cambridge Massachusetts The MIT Press ISBN 978-0-262-13275-6 Mead reproduces the plan and dates it to 1856 “1857 Historical images of Avenue de l'Opéra Paris Historical images of Opéra Garnier Historical images of Boulevard des Capucines PD-old-100 |