 By contrast, a famous Parisian elm associated with the "Ancien Régime", "L'Orme de Saint-Gervais" in the Place St-Gervais, was "felled" by the revolutionaries; church authorities planted a new elm in its place in 1846, and an early 20th-century elm stands on the site today.Premier Lionel Jospin, obliged by tradition to plant a tree in the garden of the Hôtel Matignon, the official residence and workplace of Prime Ministers of France, insisted on planting an elm, so-called 'tree of the Left', choosing the new disease-resistant hybrid 'Clone 762' ("Ulmus" 'Wanoux' =).In the French Republican Calendar, in use from 1792 to 1806, the 12th day of the month Ventôse (= 2 March) was officially named "jour de l'Orme", Day of the Elm.