The Salle Richelieu (French pronunciation: [sal ʁiʃ(ə)ljø]) is the principal theatre of the Comédie-Française.

For the auditorium of his earlier theatre, the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux (1773–1780), Victor Louis had combined the ancient semicircle with the ellipse giving a horseshoe plan and devised open balcony boxes, both features which he employed again in the Salle Richelieu (1786–1790), as well as in his later theatre, the Théâtre des Arts (1791–1793).

It became the theatre of the Comédie-Française by an act of 14 May 1799, which merged the Variétés-Amusantes with the players from the Théâtre de la Nation of the Faubourg Saint-Germain.

[1] The interior of the auditorium was redesigned in 1798 by Jean-Charles-Alexandre Moreau and in 1822 by Pierre Fontaine,[5] who reduced the diameter of the balcony columns, which had previously obstructed the view for many spectators.

[5] From 1860 to 1864, Pierre Prosper Chabrol [fr] carried out extensive modifications of the interior and exterior, as well as the expansion of the building toward today's Place Colette.