page_title: Cirque Olympique
section_title: Cirque Olympique on the Boulevard du Temple
hierarchical_section_title: Cirque Olympique / Cirque Olympique on the Boulevard du Temple
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Theâtre national. Cirque Olympique par Jacques-Alphonse Testard, 1837. Encre et gouache.English: Theâtre national. Cirque Olympique by Jacques-Alphonse Testard, 1837. Ink and gouache.
context_page_description: The Cirque Olympique in Paris, also known as the Cirque Franconi, was an equestrian theatre company, founded in 1782 by Philip Astley, the English inventor of the modern circus ring, and was initially known as the Cirque d'Astley or the Cirque Anglais.
context_section_description: After the fire which destroyed the Cirque Olympique on the rue Faubourg du Temple, 
  the brothers Franconi moved again, this time to the boulevard du Temple, where they built yet another theatre, also known as the Cirque Olympique. The new theatre, built to the designs of the French architect Alexandre Bourla, was inaugurated on 21 March 1827. It was remodeled in 1847 by the architect Louis Théodore Charpentier for the use of the Opéra-National, which occupied it from 18 June 1844 to 1847. Thereafter it was known as the Théâtre National until 4 July 1853, when it became the Théâtre du Cirque Impérial. The theatre was demolished in 1862 for an urban renewal project, and the director at that time, Hippolyte Hostein, moved the circus to the Théâtre du Châtelet.
caption: The Cirque Olympique on the Boulevard du Temple in 1837 (48°52′01″N 2°21′56″E﻿ / ﻿48.867°N 2.36554°E﻿ / 48.867; 2.36554)
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