Editing Palais Garnier (section)

===Change in name===
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The scaffolding concealing the façade was removed on 15 August 1867 in time for the [[Exposition Universelle (1867)|Paris Exposition of 1867]]. The official title of the Paris Opera was prominently displayed on the [[entablature]] of the giant [[Corinthian order]] of coupled columns fronting the main-floor [[loggia]]:  "ACADEMIE IMPERIALE DE MUSIQUE".<ref>Mead 1991, p. 185.</ref> When the emperor was deposed on 4 September 1870 as a result of the disastrous [[Franco-Prussian War]], the government was replaced by the [[French Third Republic|Third Republic]], and almost immediately, on 17 September 1870, the Opera was renamed Théâtre National de l'Opéra, a name it kept until 1939.<ref name=Levin>Levin, Alicia. "A documentary overview of musical theaters in Paris, 1830–1900" in Fauser (2009), p. 382.</ref> In spite of this, when it came time to change the name on the new opera house, only the first six letters of the word IMPERIALE were replaced, giving the now famous "ACADEMIE NATIONALE DE MUSIQUE", an official title which had actually only been used during the approximately two-year period of the [[French Second Republic|Second Republic]] which had preceded the Second Empire.<ref name=Levin/>