Elysee Palace (Palais de l'Elysee)
About Elysee Palace (Palais de l'Elysee)
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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A chimpanzee escaped from a nearby menagerie, entered the palace, and was said to have tried to haul the wife of President Raymond Poincare into a tree.
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