Chateau de Malmaison

Chateau de Malmaison is a French chateau near the western bank of the Seine approximately 15 kilometres west of the centre of Paris in Rueil-Malmaison. Formerly the house of Empress Josephine de Beauharnais, at the side of the Tuileries it become the headquarters of the French government from 1800 to 1802, and Napoleon's remaining house in France on the end of the Hundred Days in 1815. In the overdue 19th and early 20th century, the property have become a summer season residence of Edward Tuck, the Vice Consul of the American Legation in Paris.

Joséphine de Beauharnais bought the manor house in April 1799 for herself and her husband, General Napoleon Bonaparte, the destiny Napoleon I of France, at that time away combating the Egyptian Campaign. Malmaison become a run-down property, 7 miles west of central Paris that encompassed nearly 150 acres 0.61 km2 of woods and meadows. The public can visit the manor house as a Napoleonic musée national. The museum lies on RN 13 course nationale 13 from Paris and bus 258 from RER A "Grande Arche" station.