Elysee Palace
About Elysee Palace
The Élysée Palace is the official residence of the president of France in Paris. Completed in 1722, it was built for Louis Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, a nobleman and army officer who had been appointed governor of Île-de-France in 1719. It is located on the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in the 8th arrondissement, near the Champs-Élysées. The name Élysée derives from the Elysian Fields, the place of the blessed dead in Greek mythology.
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Oh So she was the daughter-in-law of the president of France in the 1940s after the war and she helped to decorate some of the rooms of the Elysees Palace After the war and she was known as one of the most elegant women in all of Paris And then in 1948 she thought fuck this the Elysees Palace.
from 391: No Such Thing As A Sausage Swingboat, 2021-09-17 at 00:10:49 · read transcript
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She decided to become an aerobatic pilot. and she got into a massive crash and crashed into the CEN and she had to have 22 operations to rebuild her face. Wow. That was how bad the crash was. Then in 1953 she became one of the first ever test pilots to fly Concord and she was the first woman to fly Concord. Really? Imagine that for a CV to go from like interior design in the palace in Paris and then to that.
No Such Thing As A Sausage Swingboat, 2021-09-17 · listen
That seemed to be that it might have happened, but then I went further back and found some reports in 1916 in the American press, and this definitely did happen. The Baron Henri de Rothschild had a place near the Elysee Palace, and he'd been to the Far East, which means that maybe this eight might have been an orangutan, we think. He brought it to his home near the Elyse Palace, and it had escaped. Oh, God.
No Such Thing As Clean Victoria, 2025-05-01 · listen
It did. There was an incident involving Henriette Poncaray, who was the wife of the president. On the Wikipedia for the Alise Palace, it says in 1917, a chimpanzee. A chimpanzee escaped from a nearby menagerie entered the palace and was said to have tried to hold the wife of President Raymond Poin-Carray into a tree. How strong was it that you'd have hauled her into a tree?
No Such Thing As Clean Victoria, 2025-05-01 · listen
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