Grand Opera House, Paris Tagetes patula 'On the Dizzy Brink'

'On the Dizzy Brink'

with figures and horse drawn carriages in the foreground

General Marchand inspecting trenches

starring Wildred Brambell as Albert Steptoe

and Leeuwenhoek's hypothesis about the formation of oyster shells (fig

Grand Opera House, Paris Tagetes patula 'On the Dizzy Brink'Grand Opera House, Paris, 19th century. The Opera was designed in Neo Baroque style by Charles Garnier and built between 1861 and 1874 as part of Baron Haussmann's great reconstruction project ordered by Napoleon III. It is one of the two homes of the Opera National de Paris, the other being the Opera Bastille which opened in 1989. Stereoscopic card detail.