A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Paradis

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A Dictionary of Music and Musicians
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From volume 2 of the work.

1972357A Dictionary of Music and Musicians — ParadisGeorge Grove

PARADIS, in the French theatres, is the top row of the boxes. It is called so either because it is the highest, and therefore nearest heaven, or, as some one wittily said, because like the real Paradise the top boxes contain more of the poor than the rich.

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