世界之旅:ELYSEE PALACE (法國愛麗捨宮)

The Elysee Palace in France enjoys equal popularity in the worldwith the Buckingham Palace in the United Kingdom, the Kremlin in Russiaas well as the White House in the U.S. It is the risidence of thepresident of the French Republic and the symbol of the supremeauthority in the France.

法國的愛麗捨宮與英國的白金漢宮，俄國的克里姆林宮以及美國的白宮一樣聞名於世。她是法蘭西共和國的總統府和法國最高權力的象徵。

The Elysee Palace, with an area of 11,000 square meters ,is atthe easten end of the Champs Elysee in the bustling city of Pairsproper and backed by a large and tranquil garden of more than twentythousand square meters. Its main building, quite handsome and graceful,is a two-story classical stone architecture of European style, flankedby two side buildings facing each other and with an extensiverectangular courtyard in the middle. There are altogether 369 halls androoms of different size.

愛麗捨宮位於巴黎香榭麗舍大街東端，佔地11，000平方米，地處喧鬧的市中心，背靠一個2萬多平方米的恬靜大花園。它的主樓，是一座兩層的歐式古典石建築，典雅莊重，兩側各有一座兩層石建築，相峙而立，中間是一個寬敞的矩形庭院，宮內一共有369間大小不等的廳室。

The Elysee Palace, built in 1718, has a long history of closingto 300 years to date. This house was at first a private residence of acount named d’Evreau, hence it was called Hotel d’Evreau. It had later gone through many vicissitudes and its owners had been changed for many times, but all the dwellers in it were distinguished personages and high officials. The house was renamed Bonaparte Mansion when it was owned by Louis 15 and Louis 16 successively when they acted asemperors. Napoleon 1 signed his act of abdication here when he hadsuffered crushing defeat in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Napoleon 3moved in the Mansion in 1848 when he was elected president, and the house became a Royal Palace when he proclaimed himself as emperor. TheThird French Republic issued a decree in 1873, designating officially the Elysee Palace as the residence of president of the French Republic. Over the hundred odd years since then, almost all the president of the French Republic worked and lived there. Starting from 1989, the Elysee Palace is open to the public every year in September on the French Castles Day.

愛麗捨宮，建於1718年，至今有近300年的悠久歷史。它最初是一位名叫戴弗羅伯爵的私人住宅，因此那時也稱做戴弗羅公館。此後歷經滄桑，幾易其主，但都一直爲達官貴人所享用。路易十五和路易十六當政時相繼居住於此，並將其更名爲波旁大廈。1815年拿破崙一世在滑鐵侖戰役中一敗塗地，在此簽字退位。1848年拿破崙三世在被選舉爲總統後遷居於此，並在他稱帝后這裏就變成了皇家宮殿。1873年法蘭西共和國頒佈法令，正式將其指定爲法蘭西共和國總統府。此後百餘年，法蘭西共和國曆屆總統幾乎都在此工作和生活過。從1989年起，愛麗捨宮每年於九月法國古堡節這天對公衆開發。