The 10th arrondissement of Paris ( X arrondissement ) is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France . In spoken French, the arrondissement is referred to as le dixième ( [dizjɛm] ; "the tenth", formally le dixième arrondissement de Paris ). In 2020, it had a population of 83,459.
6-400: Théâtre Antoine-Simone Berriau is a theater located at 14 boulevard de Strasbourg in the 10th arrondissement of Paris . The 800-seat Italian Style theater was built in the year 1866. It functioned under a variety of names through the years, opening as Theatre des Menus-Plaisirs (1866–1874, 1877–1879, 1882–1888), then Théâtre des Arts (1874–1876, 1879–1881), Opéra-Bouffe (1876–1877), and
12-657: Is situated on the right bank of the River Seine . It contains two of Paris's six main railway stations : the Gare du Nord and the Gare de l'Est . Built during the 19th century, these two termini are among the busiest in Europe . The 10th arrondissement also contains a large portion of the Canal Saint-Martin , linking the northeastern parts of Paris with the Seine. The current mayor of
18-595: The Comédie-Parisienne (1881). In 1888 it became the venue for the Théâtre Libre company of André Antoine . Although short-lived, lasting only eight years, the theater's pioneering naturalism proved extremely influential. Antoine departed in 1894 under financial pressure, the enterprise closed in 1896, but Antoine returned the following year to the renamed Théâtre Antoine with a more deliberately provocative program that lasted until 1906. The theater now bears
24-405: The 10th arrondissement is Alexandra Cordebard since 2017. The land area of the arrondissement is 2.892 km (1.117 sq mi; 715 acres). The 10th arrondissement is often referred to as l'Entrepôt . Like all Parisian arrondissements, it is divided into four quartiers (districts): The peak population of the 10th arrondissement occurred in 1881, when it had 159,809 inhabitants. Today,
30-431: The arrondissement remains very dense in both population and business activity, with 89,612 inhabitants and 71,962 jobs at last census in 1999. Due to its large Turkish minority , the 10th arrondissement is often called "La Petite Turquie" (Little Turkey). An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. An immigrant may have acquired French citizenship since moving to France, but
36-543: The name of actress and director Simone Berriau, who presented the complete dramatic work of Jean-Paul Sartre here beginning in 1943. For instance the first production of his 1951 The Devil and the Good Lord opened here, directed by Louis Jouvet . On her death in 1984 her daughter Helena Bossis took charge; since the death of Bossis in 2008, her husband Daniel Dares has served as director. 10th arrondissement of Paris The arrondissement, called Entrepôt (warehouse),
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