This is the Paris Opera House as seen from the roof of the Galleries Lafayette department store. The Eiffel Tower is in the far distance, photo bombing everything in its path as usual.
Lunchtime Photo
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Had tickets to the Ukranian National Ballet for over the holidays for here, but came down with Covid the day we arrived. It is spectacular inside. The Opera, not the 4 walls of my apartment….
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The opera house is an architectural marvel and a must-see for visitors to Paris. It makes for some great photos.
A few minutes away, about a block behind the opera from this angle, is the site of the Salon Indien du Grand Café on the Boulevard des Capucines. The Grand Café is no longer there. It is now a hotel. It a stop for very few visitors to a city filled with history and grandeur.
Yet in the salon at the Grand Café history was made, something more influential to our time and culture than all the operas performed at the Paris Opera House, even its famous phantom.
In December 1895, twenty years after the opera house had opened, Louis and Auguste Lumière screened a program of ten short films, the first time a paying audience went to "the movies." The site of the Grand Café is now widely regarded as "the birthplace of cinema."
Thanks for making me feel bad....I thought I knew Paris well, but your photography continually shows me that I don't know the city at all. It is embarrassing.
But it is good to be shown that you are wrong, (I've been to Paris a dozen times, have not yet to be in or seen Opera...that sounds impossible, but true. I have friends in Paris that live adjacent to Opera...but busy, is busy, people want to talk...and of course I want to get to Rome or Canterbury or wherever).
The net result is that Kevin gets to kick me around...which is a good.
Best Wishes and Bushels of Luck,(I need your Boot...lol) Traveller