The Elysee Palace is the official residence of the President of France, located in Paris near the Champs-Elysees. It was built in the early 18th century for the Count of Evreux, a nobleman, to designs by the architect Armand-Claude Mollet. It later belonged to Madame de Pompadour, the mistress of Louis XV, and then served various owners. Napoleon Bonaparte lived there, and signed his second abdication in its rooms after Waterloo. After the 1848 revolution it became the residence of the president of the Second Republic, Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, and since the Third Republic it has been the permanent seat of the French head of state.
Before and after
- 25 April 1719Publication of Robinson Crusoe
- from c. 1720s to 1740sCampaigns of Nader Shah
- 30 August 1721Treaty of Nystad
- from 22 October 1721 to 1 September 1917Russian Empire
- 1722Construction of Élysée Palace
- 1723Founding of Montevideo
- June 1723Birth of Adam Smith
- 22 January 1724Founding of Saint Petersburg State University
- 22 April 1724Birth of Immanuel Kant
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