The Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, an armed-concrete robbery by Auguste Perret
Built in 1913, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris is not located on the famous avenue from which it takes its name.Its Jewish patron, Gabriel Astruc, was forced to move his “philharmonic palace”—originally planned near the Champs-Élysées roundabout—several hundred meters down Avenue Montaigne due to local protests tinged with anti-Semitism. The project, originally conceived by two…















