Élysée Palace Garden

The Élysée Palace Garden belongs to a residence with a formal political purpose: the official home of the President of France in Paris. The building behind it was completed in 1722 for Louis Henri de La Tour d’Auvergne, Count of Évreux—an army officer appointed governor of Île-de-France in 1719. The gardens form part of what was commissioned as a private “hôtel particulier,” with an entrance court and a garden space arranged around the palace’s street-facing frontage. In 1718, the architect Armand-Claude Mollet sold the earlier property and then undertook the count’s new urban mansion, which was finished and decorated by 1722. That same palace later became the state’s chosen stage: on 12 December 1848, during the Second Republic, French Parliament passed a law declaring the building the official residence of the French president. …

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