Élysée Palace
The Élysée Palace—French *Palais de l’Élysée*—is France’s presidential residence, completed in 1722 and built in baroque architectural style by Armand-Claude Mollet. Construction began in 1718, when Mollet sold a property west of Paris to Louis Henri de La Tour d’Auvergne, Count of Évreux, for whom Mollet would create an *hôtel particulier* with an entrance court and a garden. The name “Élysée” comes from the Elysian Fields of Greek mythology, a place associated with the blessed dead. This is also a building of political procedure. On 12 December 1848, the French Parliament passed a law making the palace the official residence of the French president under the Second Republic. Since then, it has housed both the presidential office and residence, and it functions as the weekly meeting place of the Council of Ministers. …
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