The Salle de la Bouteille or Salle du Jeu de Paume de la Bouteille, later known as the Hôtel Guénégaud or Guénégaud Theatre, was a 1671 theatre located in Paris, France, between the rue de Seine and t
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."
Presumed plan of the theatre near the Passage du Pont-Neuf (1886)
Andromède is a French verse play in a prologue and five acts by Pierre Corneille, first performed on 1 February 1650 by the Troupe Royale de l'Hôtel de Bourgogne at the Théâtre Royal de Bourbon in Par
Title page (1651, 2nd edition)
Prologue: Melpomène, flying in the sky, and the Sun in his "luminously bright chariot"
Act 1: Vénus in her "glory"
Act 2: Aeole and eight Venti raise Andromède into the clouds amid thunder and lightning