Théâtre Déjazet 3.21

The Théâtre Dejazet is a theatre on the boulevard du Temple (popularly known as the 'boulevard du crime’) in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris, France. It was founded in 1770 by Comte d'Artois who later was crowned Charles X. It was then closed down and not reopened until 1851. At that time it became a café-concert called the Folies-Mayer, on the site of a former jeu de paume (tennis court). It was converted into the Folies-Concertantes in 1853, and reopened as the Folies-Nouvelles on 21 October 1854.Under the direction of the operetta composer Hervé from 1854 to 1856, it became a theatre for one-act spectacles-concerts with premieres of Hervé's La perle de l'Alsace (1854), Un compositeur toqué (1854), La fine fleur de l'Andalousie (1854), Agamemnon, ou Le chameau à deux bosses (1856), and Vadé au cabaret (1856).One of Jacques Offenbach's first works, the anthropophagie musicale Oyayaye, ou La reine des îles was also performed there (1855), and two opérettes, Delibes's Deux sous de charbon (1856), and Lecocq's Huis-Clos (1859). The mime Paul Legrand also regularly performed there between 1853 and 1859. The Folies-Nouvelles closed on 1 September 1859.