opera house

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Good advice:
To the Editor: I recently returned from Paris and a visit to the Paris Opera. Some thoughts on the Q & A item of March 13 on ''Phantom of the Opera'' tours: Since viewing some parts of the opera house is very limited, especially on days of performance (you will not see the Chagall ceiling), we found the best thing to do was to buy the cheapest seat ($13) for an evening performance. The 10 days we were there, no operas were being performed, but a guest orchestra was there for two nights. We were up in the heavens, and the seats were very tight - no leg room - but we arrived half an hour before the performance and were able to walk all around. At intermission we viewed the long bar, and at the end of the evening, we were able to walk into the boxes.

If you can't go on the backstage tour, go to the d'Orsay Museum where there is a large model of a cross section of the Paris Opera. There is also a good opera exhibit. If you go to the opera house for a tour during the day, be sure to go back at night to see the outside all lit up. MARION L. HAWKINS Centerport, L.I.

Les Catacombes de Paris

The Catacombs of Paris (the “municipal Ossuary”) have been created at the end of the 18th century. The cemetery of Innocent (close to Saint-Eustace, in the district of the "Halles") had been used during nearly ten centuries and had become the origin of infection for all the inhabitants of the district. After multiple complaints, the Council of State, by decision of November 9, 1785, pronounced the removal and the evacuation of the cemetery of the Innocent ones.

CAUTION! : CLOSING OF THE CATACOMBS FOR WORK FROM MONDAY NOVEMBER 19, 2007 TO APRIL, 2008( Catacombs are currently closed for work )

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Moulin Rouge

Moulin Rouge (French for Red Windmill) is a traditional cabaret built in 1889 by Josep Oller, who also owned the Paris Olympia. It is near Montmartre in the Paris red-light district of Pigalle on Boulevard de Clichy in the 18th arrondissement, it is recognized by the facsimile of a large red windmill on its roof.

Over the past hundred years, the Moulin Rouge has remained a popular tourist destination, offers musical dance entertainment for adult visitors from around the world. Much of the romance from turn-of-the-century France is still present in the club's decor.

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DINNER & SHOW (Dinner at 7 pm followed by the show at 9 pm)
* French Cancan Menu 145 euros
* Toulouse-Lautrec Menu 160 euros
* Belle Epoque Menu 175 euros
Half bottle of champagne included

SHOW ONLY
* At 9 PM 99 euros
* At 11 PM 89 euros
Half bottle of champagne included

Père-Lachaise cemetery

Père-Lachaise Cemetery (French: Cimetière du Père-Lachaise) (officially, cimetière de l'Est “eastern cemetery”) is the largest cemetery in the city of Paris, France at[1] (48 ha, 118.6 acres), although there are larger cemeteries in Paris suburbs.

Père-Lachaise is one of the most famous cemeteries in the world. Located in the 20e arrondissement, it is reputed to be the world's most-visited cemetery, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors annually to the graves of those who have enhanced French life over the past 200 years. It is also the site of three Great War memorials.

Père-Lachaise is located on Boulevard de Ménilmontant. Métro station Philippe Auguste on line 2 is next to the main entrance, while the station called Père Lachaise, on lines 2 or 3, is 500 metres away near a side entrance. (Many tourists are reported to prefer the Gambetta station on line 3 as it allows them to enter near the tomb of Oscar Wilde and go downhill to visit the rest of the cemetery.)

list of burials are up on wikipedia
wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A8re-Lachaise_cemetery


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video of someone walking through the cemetery


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