of the public buildings are in fi in appearances, if ut in nomi these are more or less modern, of which the Hotel de Ville is chief, have been built. after the old style, and if one wishes adequately to appreciate and to enjoy a visit to Paris, have some acquaintance architecture and some French history.
'THE ELYSER, The Palace of the ww is the town residence of the President of the Republic it is not one of the finest of the palaces, but it is a handsome building, and is splendidly furnished and decorated.—Special permission is required in order to see the AXysdée. It was originally built at the beginning of tie eighteenth century, for the Count of Evreux, but it was alte cular; When Madame de Pomp inhabited the palace and, later on, th Duchess of Bourbon, from which Princes it took the name of Elysee Bourbon, as it took the name of Klysée Napoleon from the Emperor Napoleon ILI, who lived there so did his famous uncle, Napoleon the First. The Blysée stands in the Rue clu Faubourg St. Honoré, and the gardens Iehind it stretch away to the Champs Elysees.
Close to the Elysee, also in the Rue clu Faubourg St. Honord, stands the British Embassy, a tine house, belonging to our In describing the principal Paris palaces, we will first visit those on the right or north bank of the Seine, and then those on the left.
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