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L'Archipel Cinéma

Former names	Le Bourdon; Paris-Ciné
Location	France, Paris, 10th arrondissement
Coordinates	48° 52′ 14″ North, 2° 21′ 17″ East
Owner	Fabrice Roux and Bruno Chapelle
Capacity	156 and 123 seats
Construction
Opened	1893
Renovated	2011
Website
https://www.larchipel.net/

L’Archipel, is a theatre and a cinema of the 10th arrondissement of Paris, located at the 17, Strasbourg Boulevard . The establishment is composed by two multipurpose rooms: the blue one, at the ground floor, and the red one, at the underground.

History

Firstly, the establishment opened in 1893 as a café-concert place (French: coffee-concert) and was called “Le Concert de la Ville Japonaise” (Concert of the Japanese City). This place had a “post-communard” tendency (A “communard” is a person who took part to an insurrectional movement in Paris, named “Commune de Paris” from 18th March of 1871 to 28th May of 1871). Many artists such as René Devilliers or Maxime Lisbonne performed there. Maurice Chevalier was also one of them in 1902 . He said about this place he used to go at fourteen:

The audience of “La Ville Japonaise”(Japanese City) was mainly made up of ribald persons of independent means with their young mistresses. […] This audience made up of quasi lecherous dotards and self-interested concubines was the daily kernel of the establishment. The Boulevard of Strasbourg being an excessively bustling and turbulent boulevard, the remaining part of this audience was made up of people passing by such as senior civil servants waiting for their train to Gare de l’Est (French: East railway station).

— Maurice Chevalier

In 1907, the theatre was purchased by Gaston Brunswick, alias Montéhus, and renamed “Le Pilori de Montéhus” (French: The Montéhus Pillory’s). In 1911, while keeping its tavern activity, the theatre became a cinema for the first time, go by the name of “Le Bourdon”. In 1912, Georges Lordier purchased the cinema and give it the name of “Paris-Ciné” (Paris-Cinema) (the cinema will be called in this way until 2001). The first silent film (with artists singing behind the screen) was showed by Georges Lordier, as well as “Maudite soit la guerre” (French: Damn the War), in 1914, by Alfred Machin.

The establishment joined sound film in 1931 and was extended by an underground room, who will be replaced by a wine-tasting cellar in 1955 until 1961, where the theatre get his two cinema rooms back, one at the ground floor and the other one at the underground.

In 1997, Pierre Dyens became owner of the cinema. He renovated both rooms which were extremely damaged by a long period of pornographic movies showing. The cinema will get the name of “L’Archipel”. In 2011, theatre actors Fabrice Roux and Bruno Chapelle became owners of the establishment. In turn, they began renovation and updating to standards works.

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  Poster of "Tire au flanc" (French: The Army Game), first showed movie at the “Paris-Ciné” in 1912
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  Facade of Paris-Ciné in1993 became L’Archipel in 2007

Cinema

L’Archipel Cinéma is an « Art Et Essai » (French: Art and Essay) listed site. In French law, an Art et Essai cinema is intented to promote independent cinema and allowed to receive subsidy from Government. The theatre-cinema is part of the network “Cinémas indépendants parisiens (CIP)” (French: Parisians independents cinemas). He has a “Jeune public” label (French: Young audience label), as well as “Recherche et découverte” (French: Research and Discovery) and “Patrimoine et répertoire” (French: Heritage and Repertory). The Archipel is also a partnership of the “Association pour le cinema et sa diffusion (ACID)” (French: Association for the cinema and his broadcasting) and a member of the “Groupement national des cinémas de recherche (GNCR)” (French: National group of research cinemas).

L’Archipel Cinéma is equipped for digital showing but also for heritage movies projections thanks to his 35 mm projector.

Theatre

The theatre and music programme mainly offers one-man-show, comedies, dramatic, modern and classical theatre as well as concerts and showcases.

Access

Archipel cinema is reachable by metro line 4, 8 and 9 at Strasbourg - Saint-Denis station and by RATP bus lines such as 29,38,39 or 47(RATP is the Parisian bus system).