Élysée Palace Garden

The Élysée Palace Garden, or Jardin du Palais de l’Élysée, is one of the most private green spaces in Paris: the formal garden of the French presidential residence. It was laid out in 1722 by Armand Claude Mollet, and its baroque design gives it the ordered, ceremonial feel you’d expect from an eighteenth-century palace garden. That date matters, because the garden belongs to the original world of the Palais de l’Élysée, when aristocratic townhouses were shaping this part of Paris into a place of power and display. Today, the garden is protected as a classified historical monument, which places it among the city’s officially safeguarded heritage sites. Even without public access, its story is tied to one of the most watched addresses in France: a garden first designed for elegance, later folded into the political life of the Republic. …

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