In pictures

Situated in rue Bonaparte (previously rue Malerba), thehouse where Napoleon was born is today a nationalmuseum run from the Malmaison museum.

This room presents Napoleon and his brothers and sisters.The marble bust is a copy after Chaudet, the portraitof Napoleon in his coronation robes is by Girodet. Below is the Emperor's death mask and glass cases containingfacsimiles of manuscripts written in his youth, hisbirth certificate and letters from his brothers andsisters.

The off-white marble colour of the wallpaper matchesthe sample of the original wallpaper found in 1957 whenthe wall mirror was dismantled; the green embossed velvet decorated with pansies which covers the chairs and the table was also reconstituted from original fragments.

According to legend, this bedroom was used by the General Bonaparte on his return from Egypt in 1799.

Originally the study, this room has been used since 1957as a place to display some of the furniture from the next-door room.

This room, probably decorated in 1797, is at presentbeing restored.

Laetitia Murat (1802-1859) was the second child of Caroline and Joachim Murat.

This painting was bequeathed to the town of Ajaccio by Félix Bacciochi

Tradition has it that Napoleon entered the world in this room 15 August, 1769 with his mother lying on theLouis XVI divan, although this piece of furniture withits chevets curling in opposite directionsalmost certainly dates to after the birth of the future emperor.