![]() ![]() After the Revolution it was restored to its leading position in Paris by Napoleon in the reforms of 1807. The Paris Opera House rose to pre-eminence in the eighteenth century. ![]() Even today, it employs over a thousand people and contains two permanent ballet schools within the building. At the time in which the novel is set, the Opera House boasted over fifteen hundred employees and had its own stables of white horses for the opera troupe underneath the forecourt. From prima donna to stage-hand, the Opera House was governed by intrigue and rumor everyone jostling for position, defending their own territory and scrabbling for new. It was a hotbed of politics and factions. The huge building was constructed to designs by Charles Garnier from 1861-1875. Anyone familiar with a large opera house would testify that it is an extraordinary labyrinth of people and passageways, but the Paris Opera House of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, in which Gaston Leroux set The Phantom of the Opera, was remarkable by any standards. ![]()
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