”They go to the chestnut trees in the Champs Élysée and the linden trees in the Palais Royal,” says M. They fly as far afield as the Bois de Boulogne on the city’s western edge about three kilometers away. The 75,000 bees produce more than 1,000 pounds of honey a year. Jean now tends to five of the wooden box hives on a 30-foot-square roof overlooking the rooftops of Paris. He decided to leave the hive there and over the years has added more. ”They make more honey here than they do in the countryside,” M. When he came back to pick it up two weeks later, he found it already full of honey. Paucton put the box on the seventh-floor roof at the back of the building and opened the hive. He suggested putting the hives on the roof where the bees wouldn’t bother anyone. The fireman had been raising trout in the building’s huge cistern, a firefighting reservoir and the inspiration for the underground lake in ”Phantom of the Opera”.
Jean mentioned his dilemma to the opera house fireman. He was delayed, so he needed somewhere to put the bees as they will only survive in a sealed hive for about 48 hours. Jean had intended to take it to his country house north of Paris. It was delivered to him sealed and full of bees at the Opera Garnier.
The school has been teaching Parisians about hives and honey for 150 years.Īlmost thirty years ago, he ordered his first hive. He studied beekeeping at the Jardin du Luxembourg. The health pass is mandatory to access the Palais Garnier for all visitors over 12 years and 2 months old.Jean Paucton, a retired prop man for the Opera Garnier became interested in bees. de l'Opéra, 75001 Paris) prior to your visit to Opera Garnier. Please note: Your booking confirmation must be exchanged for an Opera Garnier entry pass at the Big Bus Tours Information Center (11 Av. You'll also be able to visit the Paris Opera Library-Museum, and enter any temporary exhibitions at no further cost. On your visit, you can tour through different areas of the building, including the Rotonde des Abonnés, Bassin de la Pythie, Grand Staircase, Grand Foyer, Avant-Foyer, Salons de la lune et du soleil, Rotonde du Glacier and tapestry collection.
Combining multiple architectural features, this lavish building epitomises French grandeur, and is an important spiritual home of the country's rich dance, musical and theatrical traditions. This iconic opera house is famously known as the setting of Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel, The Phantom of the Opera, and its later musical adaption by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Immerse yourself in opulent Parisian luxury with a self-guided tour of Palais Garnier.
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