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Chaussée-d'Antin and Nouvelle-Athènes

From the booksellers of rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin and rue de Trévise to the galleries and halls of the 9th arrondissement.

On foot · about 1 h 15 · 2.5 km

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   Edmond Bailly's bookshop, the Librairie de l'Art indépendant11, rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin, 75009 Paris · Metro Chaussée d'Antin – La Fayette (7, 9)Other useBookshop1888-1890 (1890s)

   Edmond Bailly, a composer and publisher, ran a small bookshop and publishing house here that became the meeting place of Symbolists and occultists. Debussy, Satie, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Mallarmé, Péladan and Toulouse-Lautrec dropped in during the late afternoon. Churton makes it the gateway to the whole of occult Paris in the Belle Époque.

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2. 102

   Galerie Durand-Ruel – first Salon de la Rose+Croix11, rue Le Peletier, 75009 Paris · Metro Le Peletier (7) / Richelieu – Drouot (8, 9)Fate unknownSalon1892

   On 10 March 1892 the first Salon de la Rose+Croix opened here, organized by Joséphin Péladan and funded by Count Antoine de La Rochefoucauld. The crowds were so large that traffic in the neighborhood came to a standstill. Symbolist and Idealist painters exhibited, with music by Satie in the background.

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   Chamuel's Librairie du Merveilleux and offices of L'Initiation29, rue de Trévise, 75009 Paris · Metro Cadet (7)Other useBookshop1888-1890s

   On Papus's advice, Lucien Mauchel, known as Chamuel, opened the Librairie du Merveilleux here. The address became the nerve center of Papus's occultism: the journal L'Initiation, the Martinist Order, the Independent Group for Esoteric Studies, and meetings of Jules Doinel's Gnostic Church. Papus received the curious and the initiated here every week.

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   Théâtre de la Bodinière – the Rites of Isis18, rue Saint-Lazare, 75009 Paris · Metro Saint-Georges (12) / Trinité – d'Estienne d'Orves (12)Other useScene1899-1900

   In this small lecture and performance hall, Samuel MacGregor Mathers and his wife Moina presented their “Rites of Isis” to the public in March 1899, a theatrical reconstruction of an Egyptian cult that had begun in their temple in Auteuil. The show intrigued the press and drew curious members of fashionable Paris.

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   Gustave Moreau's house and studio14, rue de La Rochefoucauld, 75009 Paris · Metro Trinité – d'Estienne d'Orves (12) / Saint-Georges (12)Still openResidence1895-1898

   From 1895 the painter Gustave Moreau, a guiding figure for the Symbolists, turned his house and studio into a museum of his work while living in the first-floor apartment. He visited the first Salon de la Rose+Croix without exhibiting there. Churton presents the place as a sanctuary for lovers of Symbolist art.

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