 In the 1970s the "Carré Silvia-Monfort" presented contemporary theatre, and some singers and a circus school, the Cirque Gruss, who offered their spectacles in the facing square, based themselves here for a time, and converted the attic of the theatre into stables for elephants.In the early 1980s the dome of the main auditorium was threatening to collapse and was reinforced with concrete.In 1989 much of the theatre was demolished and transformed into an amusement park, , by Jean Chalopin.