Μνημείο Μπατακλάν

The Bataclan opened in eighteen sixty-five as a grand café-concert hall designed in an exotic style known as chinoiserie. Architect Charles Duval crowned the building with a distinctive pagoda roof to reflect this aesthetic. The name itself stems from a musical operetta by Jacques Offenbach, but it also serves as a long-standing pun on a French phrase for a jumbled collection of things, or a kit and caboodle. Despite its later reputation as a premier rock venue, it spent decades in the early twentieth century operating as a cinema before returning to its roots as a stage for live performances.