![]() The old opera house, located on the rue Le Peletier and known as the Salle Le Peletier, had been constructed as a temporary theatre in 1821. On 30 December 1860 the Second Empire of Emperor Napoleon III announced a competition for the design of a new, state-funded opera house. ![]() He was named in 1874 member of the Institut de France in the architecture section of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. He worked on the Temple of Aphaea in Aegina where he insisted on polychromy. He visited Greece with Edmond About and Constantinople with Théophile Gautier. He traveled through Greece providing him the subject of his fourth year submission, presented at the Paris Salon in 1853. He became a pensioner of the Académie de France à Rome from 17 January 1849 to 31 December 1853. The subject of his final examination was entitled: "Un conservatoire des arts et métiers, avec galerie d'expositions pour les produits de l'industrie". He obtained the Premier Grand Prix de Rome in 1848 at age twenty-three. Garnier became an apprentice of Louis-Hippolyte Lebas, and after that a full-time student of the École royale des Beaux-Arts de Paris, beginning during 1842. Later in life Garnier would all but ignore the fact that he was born of humble origins, preferring to claim Sarthe as his birthplace. He married Felicia Colle, daughter of a captain in the French Army. His father, Jean" André Garnier, 1796–1865, who was originally from Sarthe, a department of the French region of Pays de la Loire, had worked as a blacksmith, wheelwright, and coachbuilder before settling down in Paris to work in a horse-drawn carriage rental business. Jean-Louis Charles Garnier ( pronounced 6 November 1825 – 3 August 1898) was a French architect, perhaps best known as the architect of the Palais Garnier and the Opéra de Monte-Carlo.Ĭharles Garnier was born Jean-Louis Charles Garnier on 6 November 1825 in Paris, on the Rue Mouffetard, in the present-day 5th arrondissement. ![]()
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