French President Emmanuel Macron and his aides raised eyebrows during this week's state visit with their choice of gift for Vice President Kamala Harris.

Macron presented President Joe Biden with a vinyl record and CD of the original soundtrack for Claude Lelouch's 1966 film Un Homme et une Femme, the movie the president and first lady Jill Biden saw on their first date. Other diplomatic tokens included a Saint James sweater and an LIP watch, in addition to a 2012 Christofle silver cup commemorating luxury goods designer Charles Christofle's Atlantic crossing aboard the SS Normandie ocean liner.

What did Macron give Harris? A model of an Ariane 5 rocket, a European heavy-lift space launch vehicle.

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Presidents have received surprising gifts throughout history, according to Ronald Reagan biographer Craig Shirley, though to keep any present worth more than $375, they have to pay for it themselves.

"I know Reagan was given saddles and horses," Shirley told the Washington Examiner, adding Western-style belt buckles to Reagan's list.

Reagan was not the only president on which foreign dignitaries bestowed animals, according to historian David Pietrusza. For instance, Martin Van Buren got a pair of tiger cubs from the then-sultan of Oman.

"The emperor of Ethiopia presented Theodore Roosevelt with a lion and a hyena," he said, adding that Calvin Coolidge kept two lion cubs from the mayor of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Here are five other weird gifts given to presidents:

In 1997, President Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary Clinton, who would go on to be the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, received a personalized rug from then-Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliyev featuring their faces framed by a heart-shaped medallion. "I wanted to convey their lives as one beating heart," carpet portrait artist Kamil Aliyev said of the creation, which took him 10 weeks to weave.

In 2003, British Prime Minister Tony Blair gave President George W. Bush a toiletries bag. But the gold monogrammed gift, valued at $351, was at least more expensive than the $3 jar of fish bait presented to him by Mohammed VI, the king of Morocco, along with a bejeweled dagger.

That same year, Bush received 300 pounds of raw, organic Patagonian lamb meat from former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner before it was regifted to the General Services Administration. Then-first lady Laura Bush was also presented with a complimentary pure Patagonian wool poncho.

DVDs that did not work

In 2009, President Barack Obama gave British Prime Minister Gordon Brown 25 DVDs of classic American films, including Citizen Kane and The Godfather, that did not work in the United Kingdom. In return, Brown bestowed on Obama a penholder carved from wood from the HMS Gannet, the sister ship of the HMS Resolute, from which the Resolute Desk is made.

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Two years later, Obama received a $50,000 crocodile injury insurance policy from the chief minister of Australia's Northern Territory. “I have to admit when we reformed healthcare in America, crocodile insurance is one thing we left out," Obama told U.S. troops in Darwin at the time.