Théâtre-Français (Nice)

Overview

The French-language theatre of Nice, which Marie calls «le Théâtre Français» (or «théâtre français»). It is not the Paris Comédie-Française (see Comédie-Française); in Nice it stood beside the Italian opera house (see Italian Opera, Nice). Its address and history are not yet researched.

What the diary shows

• Marie names it as a Nice theatre: «une loge pareille à celle que nous avions au Théâtre Français à Nice» (054.0325, Rome, 20 February 1876).
• It kept a season: «Ce soir ouverture du Théâtre Français» (009.0162, 13 September 1873).
• Its bill mixed comedy, vaudeville and opera sung in French: «La joie de la maison, Le chapeau de paille», with the actor Ravel (001.0008, 12 January 1873); «Héloïse et Abélard» (002.0169, 3 March 1873); «Robin des bois», Weber (004.0325, 10 May 1873); «La Traviata en français», in a ground-floor box Barnola left them (061.0218, 27 May 1876).
• Visiting Paris actors played there: «au Théâtre français, … où Agar, de la Comédie française, dans une représentation» (068.0915, 1 February 1877), which shows the two houses are distinct.

Tagged paragraphs

Since 2026-10-22 this entry holds only the Nice theatre. The Paris references that used to be tagged here (020.0360, 063.0095, 073.0243 and the 1878–1883 Paris entries) were retagged to Comédie-Française.

• 061.0218 — La Traviata in French (Nice, 1876).
• 071.0542 — «raisonnent du Théâtre Français» (Nice, 2 June 1877): Larderel, Bernardaki and Grottaminarda talk about «the Théâtre Français» over champagne. Whether they mean the Nice house or the Paris Comédie-Française is not clear from the text (0.5).

Untagged mentions that belong here (Nice entries): 001.0008, 002.0169, 004.0325, 009.0162, 016.0370, 028.0054, 048.0041, 049.0187, 054.0325, 068.0915, 084.0355.

Research needed

Address, building and management of the Nice Théâtre-Français in the 1870s (the Nice historique volumes and the Archives municipales de Nice are the likely sources; a web search on 2026-10-22 found nothing). If you know this theatre's history, we would be glad to hear from you.