The first Théâtre des Nouveautés opened on 10 March 1827 in the Salle de la Bourse (capacity 1250) located on the rue Vivienne, (Paris 2nd arr.)

The programs consisted of ballads, opéras comiques (Hector Berlioz was a chorister there for a few months), satires and political plays.

[2] The Salle de la Bourse was later used by the Opéra-Comique, then the Théâtre du Vaudeville until 1869,[3] when that company moved into a new theatre on the Boulevard des Capucines.

After more than thirty years of eclipse, a second Théâtre des Nouveautés was inaugurated on 7 April 1866 in a theatre on the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Martin [fr] (Paris 10th arr.

Founded by Jules Brasseur (who had been an actor for over twenty years at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal) in collaboration with Mme Michaux (director of the Théâtre Royal du Parc in Brussels), the new theatre was built on the site of the old Fantaisies-Parisiennes, which had been inaugurated in 1864 and in 1875 completely rebuilt in a more convenient and carefully redecorated fashion as the Folies-Ollier.