THE ELYSEES PALACE - FRANCE
Architect Armand-Claude Mollet built a town house in the early 18th century between the Grande Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré
and the Grand Cours (the Champs-Elysées),to serve as a residence for the Comte d'Evreux.
At his death in 1753, the Comte d'Evreux left a town house that was admired by all his contemporaries.
In 1816, the Elysée definitively became part of the Crown estates. On December 12, 1848,
the National Assembly issued a decree designating the "Elysée National" as the Residence of the French President.
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