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The boulevard of the Italians is one of four major boulevards of Paris, and is therefore part of the chain from west to east by the boulevards of the Madeleine, Capucines, Italians and Montmartre. It owes its name to the theatre of Italians was built shortly before the Revolution, in 1783. The theatre is now replaced by the Opera-Comique. The boulevard of the Italians was nicknamed after 1795, the little Coblence, because it brought together emigrants returned to their homeland under the Executive Board. Under the Second Restoration, one side was called boulevard of Ghent, in memory of exile in Ghent of King Louis XVIII during the Hundred Days. Throughout the nineteenth century, the boulevard was the appointment of stylish and elegant Parisian mode that lasted until the Great War of 1914-1918. It was the great era of the Café de Paris, coffee Tortoni (coffee Tortoni in Buenos Aires takes its name from that of Paris), among others. Following the completion of the boulevard Haussmann in the years 1920, these settlements disappeared to be replaced by financial institutions and others.