The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-02-19
SADI CARNOT.
The Recently Elected President of
the French Republic.

The new President of the French Re
public is now fairly installed in the ma
| tlonal mansion. After Marshall Nc
Mabon and NJ. Grevy, NJ. Carnot be-
comes mine host of La France. Per-
haps it may be interesting, by reason oil
the actual circumstances. to retrace the
prominent facts III the history of the
"Elysee."
Its first master, the one that con-
structed it at the commencement of the
eighteenth century, was the Count
d'Evreux. At the time that he made
choice of this site for this elegant man
sion. he did not assuredly, much sus-
pect that it would become one day the
centre of Paris, or at least one of the
most desirable situations of the capital.
This locality was then almost in the
country. The Count 'Evreax did not
spare any expense for creating a resi-
dence worthy of his large fortune. How
ever, the palace of Elysee has undergone
since then, so many successive moditica-
tons, that the original plan of the
building can hardly be perceived.
singular contrasts of history! There,
Where M. Greyy had installed his bill
llard halls, uwelt, after the count
Evreux, the celebrated Marchioness
de Pompadour. She expended upon
the Elysee extraVagant wealth, and EN-
oelllshed II r"vaily She enlarged
notably the garden, in taking posses
sion, a little cavallerly (but what is
thprQ TN q
lite OF the land belonging to the city.
The Partisan magistrates remon-
strated, but to oppose the fantacies of a
mistress of the king was, in those
days, strange piece of audscity. I'm
der Nine. Pompadour the Elysee saw
some ''fetes sp endld," but a burlesoue
incident which caused some consterna-
ton at one of them, still remains cele-
GRATED. NJ. de Lasteyrie, in a special
study upon the Elysee, in a vein of
pleasantly, thus relates it: One was
then in the pretty times of the Vatican
pastorals. The organizer of the fete
could not ind anything better than to
put them in action. In reserved gal
lery, al respondent with mirrors and
chandeliers, had been brought small
troup OF real sheep, well washed we'll
comoed, decorated with ribbons, and
conducted by pretty shepherdesses clad
IN llght-colored satins. This was sur.
prise, coup de theatre that was
going to be represented At a given
signal the doors were thrown open; the
multltudef fell into ecstacies in Witnessing
this charming tablesu; but the poor
sheep, not less surprised, became
frightened and made their escape in
disorder toward the end of the gallery
Stricken with terror, a fine ram seeing
his image reflected in mirror in the
distance before him, believing himself in
the presence OF an enemy, rival of his
race, ran down upon him. followed bv
all the troup, b eakipg the glass ito
thousands Of pieces and making of their
nne decorations mass of tatters: while
at tue other end of the gallery the lad es
appalled, with fright, some were faintine
and others shrieking. The berGerie was
turned into a tragedy.
Nine. de Pompadour made
legacy OF the Elysee to her brother.
the Marquis de Marignz; Louis XIV re-
purchase 1t Tor lodlng the en- bassadors
extraordinary, and the Elysee be-
came the property of the crown.
In 1773 one of the most opulent finan.
ciers, the wealthy Beaujon, bought the
palace OF the king, and considera Div
embelllshed it. 1t was he in reality
who has put it III the state where IL
is now; that is to say, one of the typ,
the most accomplished of the arcbirec-
ture of the second part of the last cen
fury.
1u 1886, Beaujon ceded it to Louis
AVl.. having reserved he enjoyment
OF 1t during his lifetime. AT his death !
the Duchess Bourbon Condo came to |
lnnaoit the MOTEL, TO which she gave the |
name of Elysee-Bourbon.
Becoming national prop rty from
l'93. the palace was rented to the man |
ayers of public fetes under the name of |
the Elysee and the Hamlet of Chan
tily."
napoleon L. had it decorated accord |
ing 10 his own fancy, and modified the |
arrangement of the interior. TWAS
there that he retired after the defeat of |
and where he signed his |
second aDdication. A few weeks the |
Duke of Wellington and the Emperor
OF Austria lodged there in turn,
From 1880 the palace rested without |
employ until 1913, when a ote of the |
assembly gave it as a resi-
dence to the president Of the Republic. |
The Prince Louis Napoleon ms allied |
himself there in l849 and did not out |
IL until he went to the Tuilleries It |
was there that he proposed the Coup |
d'Etat' with his contdants.
Under the empire, the palace was
called the "Elysee-Napoleon," and was
made, during some weeks, the residence
OF tie Countess de Teba before her
marriage with the Emperor Louis Ma
po!eon. During the exposition Of 1867.
the Emperor of Russia and the Sultan
of Turkey dweIt there.
Finally, the third French Republic
has made it the residence of its presi-
dent, an employ de6nitive this time
according to all babilities.-Trans-
lated from the Courier des Etats- U1,is,
by G II