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Sign: Paris - Where the composer Jacques Offenbach wrote "The Tales of Hoffmann" and also die


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8 Bd des Capucines, 75009 Paris, France
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On the sign:
DANS CETTE MAISON
OÙ IL MOURUT. L’ILLUSTRE MUSICIEN

DE "LA VIE PARISIENNE"
D’ "ORPHÉE AUX ENFERS"
"DE "LA BELLE HÉLENE

JACQUES OFFENBACH
(20 JUIN 1819 -5 OCTOBRE 1880(

A COMPOSÉ "LES CONTES D’ HOFFMANN"
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The sign is on the wall of the house where the Jewish-German composer Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), known for writing operettas, lived in the last years of his life and where he also composed the opera "The Tales of Hoffmann"

The house was photographed on the same day Click for a larger image

Translation of the text on the sign:
IN THIS HOUSE
WHERE HE DIE. THE ILLUSTRATED MUSICIAN

FROM “PARISIAN LIFE”
FROM “ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD”
FROM “THE BEAUTIFUL HELENA"

JACQUES OFFENBACH
(JUNE 20, 1819 -OCTOBER 5, 1880)

COMPOSED “THE TALES OF HOFFMANN”

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