The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-31
CONGREGATION OF S0TERE1GNs.


WILLIAM AND THE CzAR ALEXANDER-THE
PALACE OF THE ELYsEE AND IT'S "REMINISCENCES
HOW THE PEOPLE OF PARIS MAY WELCOME
THE RUSSIAN EMPEROR, ETC.
Paris MAY 81 Correspondence of the London Times
The Government papers speak with intense
satisfaction Of the approaching visit OF all the
as certain. The Prince Royal of Prussia Is, IL
seems, tmpatiently awaiting the end of the
London Conference to fulfil his duty as Presi-
dent of the Prusslan Exhibition, and apart
ments are already preparing for him at the
present month the C2&r pays visit TO Copen-
hagen for few weeks, and then comes TO Paris,
where he will meet. in June, King William
bis Prussian Majesty will hold his headquar-
ters at the Tuileries, and the Emperor of Russia
will be lodged at the Elysee, Faubourg st.
This palace, by-the-way, has had in its time
many illustrious occupants. IL was once the
powerful mistress OF Louis XIV. From the Pom
padour IL passed into the possession of the
famous banken Beaujon, who has left his name
to quarter of that faubourg; and after him
became the property OF the Duchess OF bourbon,
until she fed before the Revolution, Under
the Republic 1t was declared national property
and was turned Into a national printing office.
Soon after Brumaire-the Brumaire OF Bona
parte-it was sold and the grounds made pub
il was subsequently bought, almost for a
song, by Murat, and on his promotion TO the
royalty of Naples again reverted TO the State,
and became fayorite town residence Of the
FIRST Napoleon. . The Emperor of Russia resided
in it in 1874, as his nephew viii do In 1857, and
Napoleon passed some of the Hundred Days
there ON his return from Elba. In 1916 Louis
XVIII gave the Elysee to the Duke de B9rri,
and on his assassination IL fell TO the Duke de
Bordeaux, now Count de Chambord.
When the present Emperor of the French
was proclaimed President of the Republic the
Elysee, once called Bourbon, then Napoleon,
then National and now again Napoleon, was
assigned to him as his official residence; but 1t
is greatly changed since / saw him escorted TO
IL on the evening of 20th Decemb Der, l848. 1t was
then a gloomy, neglected looking edifce and
IL is now gorgeous palace, and on It's restora-
tion and decoration inside and outside untold
sums have been expended. The spacious
garden, which makes IL far more pleasant
abode than the Tuileries, opens Into the
avenue Marigny, the whole property having
once belonged to the Marquis otthat name. from
whom IT was purchased as RESIDENCE i,er ioT Inc
bassadors extraordinary by Louis XIV aIt aItSr ant Sup
death OF La Pompadour The stables and OUT OUT
houses have been greatly increased, All All Zen
cious guard-houses built within tn tne los ia bseI1
years; and on the opposite side a winsS wiisSa Note of
added, on the site where once WiAsShat was the eouD
Marshal 3ebastianL IL was nSIS h,,i AZ the walls
detat OF December was plannsui aIeon. J or what
of the Elysee- bourbon, or NHPpd Nnpd sneak they
ever be its proper name, sns hasides
miami tell MANY curious stories VosttHo "a ty,ssta
There Is no doubt that IN ms yece xyed Nv his
comes TO this capital he VIII ~ y,ooeni hcsnca
teood brotherif with fmpeIias tAes
D. " nnV a, nc uestiOn. have already heard;
sails rs ~ m itionists or fron hot headed
not tIoan itsnans but frOm staid, orderly men or
not personally hostile to tine Gar,
,inT inteuse admirers OF Poles past or present.