Bataclan

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The Bataclan is a theatre located at 50 Boulevard Voltaire in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, France. Designed in 1864 by the architect Charles Duval, its name references to Ba-ta-clan, an operatta by Jacques Offenbach. Since the early 1970s, it has come for rock music. On 13 November 2015, 90 people were killed in a coordinated terrorist attack in the theater.

Origin and use: The Bataclan originated as a large café-concert in the Chinese style, with the coffee and theater on the ground floor and a wide dance hall at first-floor level. Its original name was Grand Café Chinese. The French name "Bataclan" refers to the Offenbach operetta, but it is also a pun on the expression toute le bataclan (the "kit and caboodle", or "all that jazz", or "the whole nine yards"), the oldest written use of which precedents Offenbach by almost a century, in a journal entry of 11 November 1761 by Charles Simon Favart. Concerts were held there but it was best known for putting on the vaudevilles of Eugène Scribe, Jean-François Bayard, Mélesville, and Théophile Marion Dumersan.

The establishment, designed in 1864 by the architect Charles Duval...