Its imposing construction begins in 1858 on the initiative of Napoleone II that entrusted to Charles Garnier the difficult realization.
Temple of the middle class, situated in the centre of the economic Paris, the building had to convey whoever saw it, the splendour of the Second Empire.
The inside of the Opèra is rich in polychromatic marbles with a great staircase in the centre and two rooms (Moon’s and Sun’s) placed by the sides of it.
Its realization finished in the 1875 under the Third Republic. The Opèra is a monument to the art and the luxury to the limit of the heaviness, following a mixture of Neobaroque and Neorenaissance styles.