 In Paris, the 19th century saw a flourishing of melodrama in the many theatres that were located on the popular Boulevard du Crime, especially in the Gaîté.All this was to come to an end, however, when most of these theatres were demolished during the rebuilding of Paris by Baron Haussmann in 1862.By the end of the 19th century, the term melodrama had nearly exclusively narrowed down to a specific genre of salon entertainment