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(guó)的愛(ài)麗舍宮與英國(guó)的白金漢宮，俄國(guó)的克里姆林宮以及美國(guó)的白宮一樣聞名于世。她是法蘭西共和國(guó)的總統(tǒng)府和法國(guó)最高權(quán)力的象征。

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(ài)麗舍宮位于巴黎香榭麗舍大街東端，占地11，000平方米，地處喧鬧的市中心，背靠一個(gè)2萬(wàn)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筑，典雅莊重，兩側(cè)各有一座兩層石建筑，相峙而立，中間是一個(gè)寬敞的矩形庭院，宮內(nèi)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(ài)麗舍宮，建于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(shí)也稱做戴弗羅公館。此后歷經(jīng)滄桑，幾易其主，但都一直為達(dá)官貴人所享用。路易十五和路易十六當(dāng)政時(shí)相繼居住于此，并將其更名為波旁大廈。1815年拿破侖一世在滑鐵侖戰(zhàn)役中一敗涂地，在此簽字退位。1848年拿破侖三世在被選舉為總統(tǒng)后遷居于此，并在他稱帝后這里就變成了皇家宮殿。1873年法蘭西共和國(guó)頒布法令，正式將其指定為法蘭西共和國(guó)總統(tǒng)府。此后百余年，法蘭西共和國(guó)歷屆總統(tǒng)幾乎都在此工作和生活過(guò)。從1989年起，愛(ài)麗舍宮每年于九月法國(guó)古堡節(jié)這天對(duì)公眾開(kāi)發(fā)。