Le Bataclan

On this site, Le Bataclan began in the 1860s as a grand café-concert in a Chinoiserie style, designed in 1864 by Charles Duval and opened on 3 February 1865. Its name, “Bataclan,” points to Ba-ta-clan, an operetta by Jacques Offenbach—but it’s also a pun on the French phrase *tout le bataclan*, traced to an 11 November 1761 journal entry by Charles Simon Favart. For decades, the venue specialized in vaudevilles by writers such as Eugène Scribe and Jean-François Bayard, then in the early 1970s it became a rock music venue. This particular building was later demolished in 1950, but the Bataclan continued through reconstructions, including an architectural reconstruction completed in 1994. The name would become permanently linked to 13 November 2015, when a coordinated terrorist attack killed 90 people inside the theatre. Today, the Bataclan’s legacy is inseparable from that date—one of modern Paris’s most painful memorial chapters.

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