Rueil Malmaison

Rueil-Malmaison is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, in the Hauts-de-Seine branch of France. It is located 12.6 kilometres from the centre of Paris. It is one of the wealthiest suburbs of Paris. Rueil is famous for the Chateau de Malmaison where Napoleon and his first spouse Josephine de Beauharnais lived. Upon her loss of life in 1814, she turned into buried at the close by Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul church, which stands on the centre of the city. The Rueil barracks of the Swiss Guard had been built in 1756 below Louis XV by means of the architect Axel Guillaumot, and had been classified Monument historique considering the fact that 1973.

The Guard was formed with the aid of Louis XIII in 1616 and massacred on the Tuileries on 10 August 1792 throughout the French Revolution. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, Rueil became positioned at the front line. At the quit of the 19th century, Impressionist painters like Pierre-Auguste Renoir, douard Manet and Claude Monet got here to paint the Seine River which crosses the city. Rueil is in spite of the name the predominant vicinity of the radical Loin de Rueil via the French novelist Raymond Queneau. The city is twinned with Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, inside the United Kingdom.