THÉÂTRE MONTANSIER

Inaugurated on November 18, 1777 in the presence of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, under the leadership of his "godmother", Marguerite Brunet, who became "Miss de Montansier", the theatre is above all the culmination of the latter. Ambitious ambitious and Parisian galante, she led both a career as an actress and director of the troops in the province, before obtaining, in 1768, the privilege of the performances of Versailles, then of the Court, and thus the construction of "his" place of expression, rival of the Royal Opera. The architecture of the theatre was entrusted to Jean-François Heurtier and the paintings to Pierre-Louis Bocquet: it created a fashionable decor (a round room all of gold, white and blue, with its sculpted balconies, its superb ceiling and its lustre, but also, in the building, painted marbles), restored in 1993. Today, since June 2013, Geneviève Dichamp and Frédéric Franck have taken over the leadership of the Montansier Theatre and defend their willingness to co-exist private theatre and public theatre, creation and dissemination.