Architectural drawings (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=S4A-AAAAcAAJ&amp;pg=PT44">plate 20</a> from Donnet's and Orgiazzi's 1821 book <i>Architectonographie des théâtres de Paris</i>) showing the old Paris Opera, which at the time was called the Académie Royale de Musique (also the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salle_Le_Peletier" class="extiw" title="en:Salle Le Peletier">Salle Le Peletier</a>, since it was on the rue Le Peletier). The drawings include a general site plan, a floor plan, and an interior perspective view of the stage.The theatre was built in 1821 to the designs of the French architect <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Debret" class="extiw" title="en:François Debret">François Debret</a> on the site of the former garden of the Hôtel de Choiseul. The existing buildings of the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B4tel_particulier" class="extiw" title="en:Hôtel particulier">hôtel</a></i> were joined with the opera house and were used for backstage facilities and administration. For the French text describing this plate see <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=LqM5AAAAcAAJ&amp;pg=PA271">pp. 271–298</a> in the text volume of Donnet's book (at Google Books).
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18507732" class="extiw" title="d:Q18507732">Alexis Donnet</a>
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This comes from own collection and was scanned by me, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mrlopez2681" title="User:Mrlopez2681">Mrlopez2681</a> 23:48, 14 February 2007 (UTC)