Cirque Champs-Elysees (Imperatrice) stereo of exterior

Cirque Champs-Elysees (Imperatrice) stereo of exterior, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. Cirque des Champs-Elysées, exterior & interior (#4-5 of 5 in series) The circus building where both Fillis and Baucher performed for so long (and where Baucher met with his accident by the falling chandelier) existed from 1841-1899. It began as a tent circus on the Champs-Elysées in 1836 but its owner, Louis Dejean, had a stone edifice constructed in 1841 designed by the noted architect Jacques-Ignace Hittorf. It was known as the Cirque National des Champs-Elysées until the revolution of 1848 when it became the Cirque National de Paris during the Second Republic (1848-52). With the ascent of Napoleon III and the advent of the Second Empire (1852-70), it was known as the Cirque de l'Imperatrice but the arrival of the Third Republic in 1870 resulted in its final name change to Cirque d'Ete (translated as Summer Circus). It was demolished in 1899 to make space for the Paris Exposition of 1900. The second major circus building in Paris at the time is the surviving Cirque d'Hiver (translated as Winter Circus), also designed by Hittorf and built in 1852. It was known as the Cirque Napoleon until the end of the Second Empire of Napoleon III when it gained its present name in 1871. Another significant Parisian building of the time was the Cirque Fernando (1873-1897), famous because it was frequented by the artists Degas, Renoir, and Toulouse-Lautrec. Dick Flint Baltimore