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From the Louvre to the Opéra: the Rose+Croix in town

The 1892 mass, the theosophical Palais-Royal and the galleries of Péladan's last Salons, ending with Mallarmé's Tuesdays.

On foot · about 1 h 45 · 4 km

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Church of Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois2, place du Louvre, 75001 Paris · Metro Louvre – Rivoli (1) / Pont Neuf (7)Still openPlace of worship1892
On the morning of 10 March 1892, Péladan had a solemn Mass of the Holy Spirit celebrated here to open the first Salon de la Rose+Croix. Excerpts from Wagner's Parsifal were played, preceded by fanfares for harps and trumpets by Erik Satie. The guests then drove to the Durand-Ruel gallery.
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Le Grand Véfour, Palais-Royal17, rue de Beaujolais, 75001 Paris · Metro Palais Royal – Musée du Louvre (1, 7) / Pyramides (7, 14)In operationSalonc. 1887-1888
In a private room of this famous café-restaurant at the Palais-Royal, the theosophical journal Le Lotus held an evening at which Papus spoke in public for the first time. Michelet, who had helped organize it, judged him a very poor speaker at the time; Papus improved quickly.
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Galerie des Arts réunis – 1896 Salon de la Rose+Croix28, avenue de l'Opéra, 75002 Paris · Metro Pyramides (7, 14) / Opéra (3, 7, 8)Fate unknownSalon1896
The fifth Salon de la Rose+Croix was held in March 1896 in this vast, electrically lit gallery. With Péladan away on his honeymoon, Léonce de Larmandie organized the exhibition. More than eight thousand visitors came on the first day; the poster, showing a hero brandishing the severed head of Zola, caused a scandal.
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Galerie Georges Petit – last Salon de la Rose+Croix8, rue de Sèze, 75009 Paris · Metro Madeleine (8, 12, 14) / Havre – Caumartin (3, 9)Fate unknownSalon1897
The dealer Georges Petit hosted the sixth and final Salon de la Rose+Croix, from 5 to 21 March 1897. Fifteen thousand people crowded in on opening day. Péladan, then in Belgium, left the organization to Larmandie; 217 works were hung, notably by Séon and Osbert.
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Stéphane Mallarmé's apartment – the “Tuesdays”89, rue de Rome, 75008 Paris · Metro Rome (2) / Europe (3)Private, seen from the streetSalon1880-1898
Every Tuesday evening, Mallarmé received poets, painters and musicians in his small apartment. Churton mentions these “Tuesdays” among the Symbolist gatherings attended by Gauguin, Charles Morice and regulars of Bailly's bookshop, which published a musical setting of a poem by Mallarmé.
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