Places, museums, monuments : 133
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Place, museum or monumentChurch of Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul
Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul, the ninth-century parish church of Rueil-Malmaison, is the final resting place of the Empress Josephine and her daughter, Queen Hortense. The building itself however was altered many times over the centuries before its final restoration by Napoleon III in 1857. Josephine died in Malmaison on 29th May, 1814, and was buried four days later […]
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Place, museum or monumentHôtel de Beauharnais
This private mansion was built by Boffrand in 1714 and bought by Eugène de Beauharnais in 1803. Renovated by Bataille, a neo-Egyptian portico was added on to the front overlooking the yard in 1807 while the interior was lavishly decorated. The Green drawing room on the ground floor is decorated with landscapes by Hubert Robert […]
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Place, museum or monumentPlombières-les-Bains
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Place, museum or monumentElysée Palace
This palace, which dates back to the 18th century, became in 1805 the official residence of Joachim Murat, the Governor of Paris at the time, and his wife Caroline, Napoleon's sister. Restored by Vignon and Thibault, the palace owes two of its most splendid rooms to these two architects: the “Salon Murat” and the “Salon […]
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Place, museum or monumentChâtelet Fountain
In 1808, Napoleon had the head office of the military police of Paris demolished thus opening up the required space for Place Châtelet in the middle of which a fountain designed by Bralle was erected. Also called the “Palm-tree fountain”, it comprises a 70-feet high column topped by a statue representing Victory and the allegories […]
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Place, museum or monument / 2nd Republic / 2nd EmpireVilla Eugénie (Hôtel du Palais, Biarritz)
Villa Eugénie was commissioned by Napoleon III and built in 1854. Queen Hortense had been taken by the region as early as 1807, but it took Empress Eugenia’s persuasion before Napoleon III set up the imperial court’s summer residence there. Eugenia was but a child when she discovered the beauty of the Basque coast with […]
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Place, museum or monumentNaval and Napoleonic Museum
At the very tip of the Cap d'Antibes, the museum is situated in a magnificent location in the shadow of the Tour du Graillon, a former battery Napoleon had restored to a defense post in 1794. It is surrounded by a ten acre park. The second room in the museum evokes the Napoleonic epic specifically […]
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Place, museum or monumentMuseum of Public Health and the Hospitals of Paris
Situated in the Latin quarter close to Notre-Dame cathedral, the Museum of Public Health and the Hospitals of Paris (Musée de l'Assistance publique – Hôpitaux de Paris) has been sited in the Hôtel de Miramion, a building attributed to François Mansart, since its creation. This private town mansion was, as early as 1674, associated with […]
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Place, museum or monumentMusée national du château de Compiègne – the historic apartments
Although the royal château at Compiègne had been rebuilt by Ange-Jacques Gabriel in the period between 1755 and 1788, Napoleon I nevertheless thought the residence not sufficiently imperial, and so in 1807 he ordered further architectural work. The architect Berthault rearranged the interior, the wel-known artists Girodet, Dubois and Redouté were responsible for the painted […]
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Place, museum or monumentLes Invalides, the Military Museum and Tomb of Napoleon
The Hôtel des Invalides was commissioned in 1670 by Louis XIV in order to provide accommodation and hospital care for wounded soldiers. In 1815, after Napoleon’s abdication, over 5,000 survivors of the Great Army were listed there. Napoleon inspected the place and visited his men in 1808, 1813 and 1815. The chapel of the Invalides […]