Three famous concert halls of Paris — “Casino de Paris”, the “Folies Bergere” and “Bataclan” — be sale. The owner of the Lagardere group to which they belong, Arnaud Lagardere decided to part with the next part of my heritage. Does not know in whose hands will get the monuments of culture, history and joie de vivre, the correspondent of “Kommersant” in France Alexey Tarhanov.Three famous Parisian institutions, and multi-purpose rooms-stadiums in Bordeaux and AIX-EN-Provence, the successor of Arnaud Lagardere Lagardere willing to sacrifice in order to save his own media company, losing money in the fight against shareholders. In this collection of cultural brands, collected by his father Jean-Luc Lagardere, is the famous publishing houses like Larousse, Hachette, and Grasset, Livre de Poche, magazines and Newspapers, including Paris Match and Journal du Dimanche. B 2019, the group sold the Czechs Elle and its applications, parted with many radio and TV channels, now it came to the Paris theatres, monuments.Each of them nearly two centuries of history. A memorial plaque, if they were hung in the halls, would cover the walls as a Church ex-voto. In “Casino de Paris” were Mistinguett and Maurice Chevalier, dances Roland Petit, and among artists, dress of the actors and the scene was Cesar, Vasarely, Yves Saint Laurent. In the “Folies Bergere” sung all the same, and even showed themselves in various degrees of nudity, the main Parisian beauty Belle Otero, cléo de Merod. In his artistic years, there shone his underwear Colette, here, “the black Venus” Josephine Baker danced the Charleston and went to the hall in a skirt of bananas, and when the building was rebuilt in the spirit of art Deco sculptor immortalized in relief on the facade of the Russian dancer Lisa St. Nicholas in all the richness of shapes and gold glitter thigh, dressed as it was on stage in a hat with feathers. About the special atmosphere, combining theatre, ballroom, restaurant and home visits, we can judge on the “Bar “Folies-bergère”” Edouard Manet, which posed for the artist Queen stands Suzon. Year ago picture, who is now in London, visited Paris at the Fondation Louis Vuitton.These theatres are not museums, they are varied together with time, there came new artists and new styles. This is particularly evident in the hall “Bataclan” buildings in the Chinese style, built in the late XIX century with a café and Billiards. Nowadays, there sounded the rock, and arranged a disco. On the stage were Metallica, The Cure, The Police. At the “Bataclan” there is another story: November 13, 2015 Islamist terrorists broke into the hall during the concert and managed to kill 90 people, while the police did not stop them. Hall had the hardest: his fate is like the story of the theatrical center on Dubrovka in Moscow with feverish attempts to return life to the place where the tragedy occurred. Opened “Bataclan” re-sting, but at�� there were few notable musical events.Arnaud Lagardere was hoping to get for your old concert halls and stadiums a new €70 million, but buyers showed no enthusiasm. The capacity of the three halls seemed to them insufficient, and investment in restoration and reconstruction is excessive. The beginning of the epidemic for a long time slowed down the negotiations. Hardly somebody will agree to pay for historic buildings that cannot be used until then, until you have simplified health standards.Of course, the “Casino de Paris”, the “Folies Bergere” and “Bataclan” will not be demolished and will not replace residential buildings with luxury apartments, it is also clear that during his long life, halls is not just passed from hand to hand, changed hands, concept, function, burned and burned. All three buildings are officially recognized by monuments of architecture and history, this means that large changes in appearance and function they are not threatened. The worst that can happen to them is termination of activities and stay without fun and life a shadow of what they are several centuries was Paris.
