Place de l'Opéra

The Place de l'Opéra is a square in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, at the junction of the Boulevard des Italiens, Boulevard des Capucines, Avenue de l'Opéra,, , Rue de la Paix and. It was built at the same time as the Opéra Garnier (designed by Charles Garnier), which is sited on it and after which it is named. Both structures were part of the Haussmannian redesign of Paris under Napoleon III.

2, place de l’Opéra


The building at No. 2, on the corner of rue du Quatre-Septembre, was built between 1868 and 1873 on a design by architect Henri Blondel. It was initially the head office of the Société des Dépôts et Comptes Courants (SDCC), and following the latter's liquidation in 1892 became the principal Parisian branch of Comptoir national d'escompte de Paris (CNEP), itself recently recovered from a major restructuring.

Between 1940 and 1944, the building was the location of the Kommandantur or office of the military commander of the city of Paris. It is now used by the CNEP's successor bank BNP Paribas.