Elysée

Strangely enough, the term “Elysée” does not appear in the on-line Wallace Stevens Concordance. It is the final word in the Harmonium poem, “Of Heaven Considered as a Tomb.” Here are the relevant lines:
Make hue among the dark comedians,
Halloo them in the topmost distances
For answer from their icy Elysée.
Using tomb imagery to depict the dead spirits in Heaven, “Elysée” is simply a name attributed to one of Heaven’s structures. Stevens probably had in mind the Élysée Palace, the official residence of the president of the French Republic. Not only is the Élysée Palace a marvel of architecture, but the etymology of “Élysée” probably strongly attracted Stevens as well. The palace’s name comes from the Elysian Fields, the home of the blessed dead in Greek mythology. Stevens therefore links—perhaps with conscious irony—the Christian afterlife with the ancient, Greek, pagan afterlife.
Note that two diacritical marks appear in the French word. In Stevens’s poem, however, the word has only one diacritic.