Two good news: 1. The location of the hotel is excellent. 2. The design of the rooms and hall is very decent. 3. And very professional photographers of the rooms!!! All the rest. We stayed at this hotel for the first time in October 2016. We took a standard room for two with Double Bed.In the morning, having absolutely no sleep, we decided to move to another hotel. In this hotel Double Bed is 180x140 cm. The actual width of the corridors is 60-70 centimeters. The only elevator for 6 floors takes 2 people without luggage. With luggage - 1. Trying to resolve the situation, we were moved to a room with a normal bed. Breakfast is poor, there are not enough tables in the morning. In the evening they offer NOTHING in the lobby!!! Even for money. In six months the bad was forgotten, the good remained. We liked the place so much that we decided to come again. The area is very cozy. It was big mistake. Before arrival: The money has already been debited from the card, the director wrote a letter about how glad he would be to see us. And at the same time, a hotel employee writes that our reservation is not in the system and there are no places!!! We send him confirmation - still a refusal!! Only after the director's intervention the situation changes. Upon arrival: On the first evening we try to get a classic in the room green tea- refusal. We made some noise and the employee found the last two bags. Morning and evening we hear what and how our hotel neighbors are doing. Toilet, bedroom, corridors - no insulation. Second day. There is no water, no tea, no towels in the room. When asked on the phone, there is a pause. Only when I went downstairs did I find it all difficult to get my hands on. He asked me to forward the complaints to the director. We went to the neighboring hotels. There are no seats. Day three - there is no water in the room, no tea, the dishes have not been cleared from yesterday. I take the suitcases off the shelf and realize that they are all covered in a thick layer of dust. The shelves were not wiped down for 2-3 weeks. I go downstairs and hear from the man standing at the counter that he is a stranger, replacing one of the employees, cannot help in any way, and in the morning he will forward the complaints. To the question of who he is and why he is standing behind the counter, it was not possible to get an answer. Day four – I’m trying to find out where our packages are, which were delivered to the hotel 7 days ago. Again, first a refusal, then a scandal, then they are found in the storage room and given away without even an apology. There wasn’t even an omelet or sausages for breakfast – “technical problems”, but they refused to deduct breakfast from the price. During all these days, the director, so polite in correspondence, did not come out, neither intervene nor apologize.…
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Date of stay: March 2017Trip type: Romantic trip
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Response from ODEONE, Responsable reception, Odeon Hotel
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Dear Mr. Pevchikh, We would like to thank you for taking the time to write your review on Tripadvisor. We are disappointed that your stay has not lived up to your expectations. As you indicate, it was not your first stay at the Odeon Hotel and for that reason we are extremely surprised to see your review. As you can see, our comments on Tripadvisor are excellent and the most majority of our guests are very satisfied with our property but also with our service. Our teams are available 7 days a week and 24 hours a day to help you get the best stay as possible. However, we take note of your comments. About the size of the corridors, this has never been a problem so far, we are in a historic Parisian building with a disposition that may seem attypic but that is what makes the charm of our establishment. Our lift can accommodate a maximum of 4 people. this is generally enough for two peoples and luggages. Regarding room service, cleanliness is a priority for us and our customers regularly congratulates us on this. Your welcome tray has not been changed because you have personal affairs on it and we make a point of honor not to move the business of our customers. Their discretion is essential for us. You also wished to mention the fact that the hotel requires a bank guarantee like most of the Parisian establishments. You made your payment on departure as planned in your reservation. Finnally, you also get back all the packet received all the 6 packages received and retained for you by the front desk team. We regret your disappointment and know that the team is very touched by your comments. On our side, we will continue to do our maximum to satisfy all of our customers. Please be aware that I am still available personally if you wish to exchange about your last stay. Kind regards Renaud Hébert Front Desk Manager
More detailsAlong the riverside part of the 6th arrondissement, bounded by rue Saint-André-des-Arts and rue Jacob, there is a string of bookstores, commercial art showrooms, antique shops, cafes and restaurants.
But once you look into the courtyards and side streets, you will see greenery, fountains and quiet places away from the bustle of the city.
The houses here are 57 floors high, many were built in the 17th century. XVIII centuries, some sophisticated, some prim, some swollen or lopsided, but all painted in different shades of grey, pearl or off-white. And the further west you go, the more luxurious the houses become.
There are extremely many historical and cultural associations associated with this area: on the Rue Grand-Augustin Picasso wrote his “Guernica”, on the Rue Mazarin Moliere began his career, in Cafe Prokop Robespierre and his comrades were engaged in ideological debates on the Rue Ancienne-Comédie.
Racine died on Visconti Street, Delacroix painted his paintings, and Balzac tried to start a printing business here. Oscar Wilde died on the parallel street Beaux-Arts, Corot and Ampère (who gave the name to the unit of current measurement) lived here, and the mad poet Gerard de Nerval walked along this street with a lobster on a leash.
You can also find out about such people in Museum of Letters and Manuscripts, located at 8 Rue Nesle, where the permanent exhibition presents old letters and manuscripts written by famous people, from Catherine de Medici to Simone de Beauvoir.
Here you can find several wartime letters written by Churchill, Roosevelt and Eisenhower, or see the careless handwriting of Einstein. There are also several miniature letters sent to hot-air balloon during the siege of Paris in 1870. However, if you can't read French, you probably shouldn't buy a ticket to this museum.
If you want to grab a bite to eat, you can stop by one of the cafe and eateries on the square and rue Saint-André-des-Arts, but to get to a more attractive place, you need to go further, to the rue Bussy, just in the direction of the boulevard Saint-Germain, where until recently there was a regular street market, which is now completely transformed.
Only a few morning stalls remain here, while the shops inside the buildings sell many more products - groceries, baked goods and gourmet delicacies.
The oyster seller now supplies the Atlas diner, and even the Marché bar attracts a fashionable crowd, although the waiters still wear neat cloth caps and overalls.
On the way, look into the curious little alley on the left, Cour du Commerce-Saint-André, where Marat printed his proclamations; they say that it was here, in the attic, that Doctor Guillotin perfected his “machine for cutting off heads” by practicing on sheep - the famous guillotine.
Nearby on Rue Ancienne-Comédie there is a cafe (now restaurant) “Prokop” is the first Parisian coffee house, which opened in 1686; Voltaire and Robespierre visited here. A little further away, in small courtyards, part of the fortress wall of Philip Augustus of the 12th century can be seen.
At the southern end, the Cour du Commerce lane opens onto the Odeon intersection, famous for its cinemas and now also the not very successful store of the American coffee company Starbucks.
The store was opened in early 2004, at the same time as another store of the same retail chain on the Avenue de l'Opéra, but this seemingly innocuous enterprise was regarded in Paris as the vanguard of a long-awaited American invasion of Parisian cafe and restaurant culture.
Rising further to the southwest towards Sorbonne, you will find yourself on Monsieur-le-Prince Street, along which there are restaurants with regular or ethnic cuisine, among which the classic bistro “Polydor” is considered the best.
In this eastern part of the Saint-Germain quarter you will certainly begin to feel the force of attraction university, and this is no coincidence: many consider this area to be part of Latin Quarter. The university bookstores near the Medical School stock a variety of books and skeletons and medical instruments, and the surrounding restaurants are relatively inexpensive because they cater to a less affluent student clientele.
Paris Odeon Theater
Of course, the main landmark This part of the quarter is the recently restored Odeon Theater with a representative Doric façade overlooking a beautiful semicircular square.
The building was conceived as temporary premises for the Comedie Française theater, it was latest project enlightened King Louis XVI before the start French Revolution and at the same time it was distinguished by a very revolutionary innovation: all the seats in it were seated, and the capacity of the theater reached a level then unheard of in 1900.
Typically, theaters are born as a small group of enthusiasts obsessed with some artistic idea. If it turns out to be viable, and the actors have enough talent, perseverance and luck, then the troupe will strengthen, gradually acquire props and, in the end, find a suitable premises.
With the Odeon Theater in Paris (French name Th??tre de l’Od?on), which today bears the proud name of the Theater of United Europe, everything was different. The theater building was built on the orders of Queen Marie Antoinette. She discovered it in 1782.
It was the first theater in Paris for performances according to the canons Italian theater. The site chosen for the building was near the Luxembourg Palace. The authors of the project, Marie-Joseph Peyre and Charles de Wailly, built not just a theater, but an entire complex, adjacent to which were the wings of Moliere and Corneille, arcades for carriages and servants.
But the Great Revolution broke out. The theater was closed. It reopened as the Equality Theater, but served as a political platform. In 1796 it was renamed again. From that moment on, it became known as Odeon, from the Greek "odium". This was the name of the hall for performances of singers and poets. The building again fell into the hands of the French Comedy and then burned down. It was restored again only in 1808, already under the care of the Empress of France.
Then Napoleon transferred the theater to the Paris Senate. It burned down again ten years later, was quickly restored and again transferred to the French Comedy. After another closure and revival in 1866, the great actress Sarah Bernhardt made her debut here - one of the few women who played Hamlet.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the theater was led by the outstanding theater figure Andre Antoine. He carried out a real technical revolution. The Odeon was the first to introduce electricity into its premises. The stage mechanisms have been completely refurbished. The productions were very expensive, which led to another collapse of the theater, this time financially.
The Parisian Odeon Theater (Théâtre de l’Odéon) is the most famous building the architect Charles de Wailly, who was elected to the Academy of Architecture while still a very young man, and the Russian Empress Catherine II wanted de Wailly to become the head of the St. Petersburg Academy of Architecture, but the Frenchman refused. “Odeon” (translated from the ancient Greek odeum - a place for musical performances and competitions) […]
Parisian TOdeon Theater is the most famous building of the architect Charles de Wailly, who was elected to the Academy of Architecture as a very young man, and the Russian Empress Catherine II wanted de Wailly to become the head of the St. Petersburg Academy of Architecture, but the Frenchman refused. The Odeon (translated from the ancient Greek odeum - a place for musical performances and competitions) was opened in 1782 by Queen Marie Antoinette as theater building, built according to Italian canons, but the theater itself was born only 14 years later.
Over the more than two hundred year history of its existence, the Odeon has changed several intermediate names. So, during the years of terror, it was the theater of Equality and, in fact, a political platform. Rebuilt after a fire in 1808 by the architect Chalgrin, it opened as a “ Her Majesty the Empress and Queen Theater" In the 60s of the twentieth century it was called Theater of France, and since 1990 – Theater of Europe.
Now, in addition to the semicircular theater and concert hall in an almost cubic box " Odeona» houses the largest library, archive, and repository of sound and video materials dedicated to the theater. Here previously unpublished texts are read publicly and philosophical discussions are held. This allows us to position the Odeon in the 21st century as the Theater of United Europe.
Odeon Theater (French: Théâtre de l’Odéon)
2 Rue Corneille, 75006 Paris, France
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The Odeon Theater (Théâtre de l’Odéon) is one of three theaters that bears the honorary title of Theater of Europe along with Milan’s Piccolo and Moscow’s Maly Drama Theater. Its stage organically combines classics and modernity. Here you can see a new reading of the plays of Shakespeare, Moliere, Chekhov and other classics, and get acquainted with new names in European drama.
"Child" of the French Revolution
The Odeon Theater building was built in the era of the enlightened King Louis XVI as a new premises for the Comedy Francaise. And at the opening on April 9, 1782, his wife, Queen Marie Antoinette, was present. And all performances took place in the presence of representatives of the royal family. But the Odeon theater itself was born during the Great Revolution, the spirit of which still lives in it. It became the only theater in the world where the building was built before a new troupe was assembled.
In the turbulent days of the Directory, the stage of the theater was a platform for revolutionary speakers. Then by political reasons The Comedy Française troupe split: the revolutionary actors, led by Talma, went to the Theater of the Revolution, and the royalist actors were put under house arrest. It was they who became the basis of the troupe of the new theater - the Odeon Theater.
In July 1830, the Odeon became the center of an uprising of revolutionary youth. The revolutionary spirit of the theater manifested itself again on the eve of the 1948 revolution, when anti-government plays were staged on its stage and free performances were given for students and workers. And in the spring of 1968, its walls once again sheltered the rebellious youth of Paris.
Experimental Laboratory of Performing Arts
The spirit of the Great French Revolution was present not only in political views actors and theater directors, but also in their approach to the art of acting. In 1796, on the basis of the theater, they planned to create an institute designed to train a new generation of dramatic artists and playwrights, in general, to give way to all the talents that could decorate the theater of France.
IN early XIX centuries, modern dramatic works were staged on the theater stage and opera performances. It was then that the repertoire policy of the troupe began to take shape - the main part of it consisted of plays modern writers, and a smaller one - works of classics and foreign playwrights. Since 1821, after the English troupe staged Shakespeare's plays in the original, the theater's repertoire includes tours of foreign troupes that stage performances in native language. And this approach to compiling the repertoire continues to this day.
On the stage of the Odeon Theater, the brilliant Frederic Lemaitre broke traditional ideas about the classical role of an actor, playing roles of all genres, Sarah Bernhardt made her debut. In 1885, Paul Porel, a theater man, staged Alphonse Daudet's Le d'Arlesienne to the music of Georges Bizet, accompanied by the orchestra of Edouard Colonna. At the same time, Sunday matinees began to be held with lectures by prominent theater critics.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, theater director Andre Antoine introduced Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg to the French audience, and Jean-Louis Barrault in the 1960s - Eugene Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Marguerite Duras and others. In the 1920s, under the leadership of Firmin Zhemier, the repertoire was updated: in addition to plays in modern themes Shakespeare's plays were firmly established on the stage of the Odeon Theater for a long time.
On July 1, 1990, the Odeon Theater becomes the headquarters of the Union European theaters, on the stage of which its own productions take place for six months, and the remaining time - performances by foreign troupes. For several years now, it has been running the “Generation Odeon” and “Teenagers and Territories” programs, designed to awaken interest in theater arts in the younger generation.
In each theater season, the audience is presented with performances united by one theme. The productions of the 2015-16 season were united by the theme of love: “Ivanov” and “The Seagull” by A. Chekhov, “Tartuffe” by Moliere, “Richard III” by W. Shakespeare, “Breakfast at Wittgenstein’s” by T. Burchard and others. In the new season 2016-17, the performances are united by the theme of tolerance towards representatives of other peoples, religions, views: “Don Juan” by Moliere, “Suddenly Last Summer” by T. Williams, “2666” by R. Bolano, “Dreams and Metamorphoses” based on Ovid and Shakespeare and other productions.
In 1995, a library specializing in theater was opened in the theater's premises. It stores documents, sound and video recordings. The theater regularly hosts philosophical readings of unpublished texts by famous writers.
Architectural symbol of the Age of Enlightenment
In 1767, the director of the king's buildings, the Marquis de Marigny, approached the architects Marie-Joseph Peyroux and Charles de Wailly with a proposal to develop a design for a new building for the Comédie Française troupe. At the same time, architects Denis-Claude Leguin and Jean Damun worked on another project, which is supported by the theater artists. With the support of the king's brother, in 1778 preference was given to the project of Peyre and de Wylie, which caused violent protests from the theater troupe. It got to the point that Parliament threatened to leave the artists without privileges and pensions and create a new troupe. Construction work began in May 1779. M.-J. Peyre was involved in the external appearance of the building, and C. de Wailly - in the interiors.
The neoclassical building of the theater is distinguished by the severity of its cubic forms, and its monumentality recalls the grandeur of the monuments of Antiquity. The square lobby is decorated with Tuscan columns, and two symmetrical staircases lead to the foyer. The layout of the hall was revolutionary at that time, since for the first time there were seats for spectators in the stalls. In 1965, artist Andre Masson painted the ceiling auditorium frescoes.
In the foyer of the theater there is the Roger Blin salon, which in 1967 Jean-Louis Barrault converted into an intimate theater for the creation of new works. Meetings with cultural figures and literary readings of unpublished texts are also often held here.
The second stage of the Odeon theater is located in the Berthier atelier, which was originally built as an industrial building for storing theatrical props, and in 2005 officially became the second hall of the theater.
The Odeon Theater is a symbol of the Age of Enlightenment and French Revolution, which at the end of the twentieth century became a center for joint work of representatives of the European dramatic art, which not only strive to revive artistic heritage Europe, but also create new works.
How to get there
Address: Place de l'Odéon, Paris 75006Telephone: +33 1 44 85 40 40
Website: theater-odeon.eu
Metro: Odeon
RER train: Luxembourg
Updated: 08/23/2018
The Odeon Theater is located in the historical part of Paris, not far from. It's kind of Cultural Center French capital. At the beginning of the 90s of the last century, the Odeon received prestigious title"Theater of Europe".
History of creation
The Odeon was built at the end of the 18th century. Queen Marie Antoinette liked the project so much that the best Parisian lands were allocated for it. And indeed, having opened its doors to spectators in 1778, the Odeon Theater made a huge impression on everyone who was present at the opening that day. This is what happens in our time.The theater has complicated story: it was renamed several times, during the years of terror it actually served as a political platform from which prominent politicians. It also survived a severe fire, after which it underwent reconstruction. In the 60s of the last century, the Odeon was recognized as the best of 16 theaters in France. It received the status of “Theater of Europe” in the early 90s of the last century.
The Odeon is also notable for the fact that it was on its stage that the world premiere took place. famous play Beaumarchais "Crazy Day, or The Marriage of Figaro." In addition, on the stage of the Odeon in the mid-19th century, the talent of the French actress Sarah Bernhardt was fully revealed. Her mere presence on stage charged the audience with powerful energy. It seems that these walls still preserve her.
Features of the Odeon Theater
The building of the Odeon theater is designed in strict classic style. It has two entrances: Molière and Corneille. The façade of the theater is decorated with a massive side supported by eight columns. The flags of the European Union and France flutter above its entrance. The interior decoration of the theater delights with its richness. However, it’s not just about the decorations, but also about the architecture. The hall has the shape of a semicircle with numerous arches. This luxury is crowned with a pyramid-shaped roof.The Odeon Theater is distinguished from other theaters in France by its very impressive building size. Here not only are held worldwide famous productions, but also located the most large library Paris! In its depths you can also find sound and video materials dedicated to the theater. In addition, the library regularly hosts meetings where philosophical discussions are held and unpublished and little-known literary works are read.
The productions of this theater are of interest not only to Parisians, but also to tourists - both European and Russian. You can find out how true this is by visiting the Odeon Theater yourself. It's better to see it once...
How to get there?
The easiest way to get to the theater is by metro, station Odeon. |
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