The Opéra Garnier was finished five years after Napoleon III was overthrown, in 1875.
  

The composer Jacques Fromental Helevy celebrated under a heading of «Poésie Lyrique». Halevy is best known for his monumental opera, «La Juive», which was received with wild enthusiasm in Paris and performed 562 times before being dropped from the repertoire.

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