One of the first theatre house in Paris was the "Salle des Machines" at the Tuileries royal palace. It was situated in between the "jardin des Tuileries" (Tuileries' garden) and the "cour du Carrousel" (Carrousel courtyard/square). At the time, stage left and stage right were called "coté de la Reine" (Queen's side) and "coté du Roi" (King's side), actually referring to their boxes in the house ; "coté de la loge la Reine" (the Queen's box side) and "coté de la loge du Roi" (the King's box side). After the French Revolution (1789) it was prohibited to talk about the royalty, so the 2 expressions became :
Many thanks fo
Fred Borzeix fborzeix@wanadoo.fr
for clearing that one up! |