This exhibition is organised by the French National Museum Association (RMN)-Grand Palais, in collaboration with the National Museum of the Château of Malmaison and Bois-Préau. It presents Joséphine's exceptional life, as Napoleon's first spouse, on the bicentenary of her death.
Souvenirs and works from personal collections are on show to evoke Joséphine's passions and the various periods of her extraordinary life. Travels, music, decorative arts, her love for botany… no part of the life of the First Empress of the French has been forgotten in this exhibition.
Musée du Luxembourg
19 rue de Vaugirard
75006 Paris
France
Website of the exhibition (in English)
Times:
From 10am to 7:30pm (Mondays until 10pm)
On 21 April (Easter Day) and 9 June (Bank Holiday): from 10am to 7:30pm.
Closed on 1 May.
Prices: 11€, concessions 7.5€. Free for children under 16.
Metro stations: St-Sulpice (line 4) or Mabillon (line 10). RER B Luxembourg.
Read a review of this exhibition in The Irish Times: “History avenges France's famous outcast empress Josephine de Beauharnais“.
Read a review of this exhibition in ANSA Med: “Exhibit: France celebrates Empress Josephine Bonaparte“.
Langue(s) : French and English