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  Rueil-Malmaison is the hometown of General Napoleon Bonaparte before he became Emperor of France.    Napoleon married his first wife Josephine de Beauharnais in 1796. She bought the Château de Malmaison in Rueil-Malmaison in 1799, a run-down manor house on 150 acres of woods and meadows, for 300,000 francs. However, it was near Versailles and only 12 kilometres (7 miles) from the centre of Paris.    She commenced renovations to the manor and turned it into a castle. She also established a garden with an orangery, greenhouse, and an extensive rose section with 250 different varieties.   Josephine stayed in the Château after their divorce in 1810 until her death in 1814.   MARTINA NICOLLS MartinaNicollsWebsite   Martinasblogs Publications Facebook Paris Website Animal Website Flower Website SUBSCRIBE TO MARTINA NICOLLS FOR NEWS AND UPDATES  MARTINA NICOLLS   is an international human rights-based consultant in education, healing and wellbeing, peace and stabilization, foreign aid audit

  Only 12 kilometres (7 miles) from the centre of Paris, the commune of Rueil-Malmaison is the hometown of General Napoleon Bonaparte from 1804-1810 (before he became Emperor of France).   MARTINA NICOLLS MartinaNicollsWebsite   Martinasblogs Publications Facebook Paris Website Animal Website Flower Website SUBSCRIBE TO MARTINA NICOLLS FOR NEWS AND UPDATES  MARTINA NICOLLS   is an international human rights-based consultant in education, healing and wellbeing, peace and stabilization, foreign aid audits and evaluations, and the  author   of:  The Paris Residences of James Joyce   (2020), Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

The Imperial Jubilee – Napoleon Bonaparte’s parade – began 10 years ago in 2012, but being held every two years in the commune Rueil-Malmaison in the western suburbs of Paris, this is actually the 4th edition.    Rueil-Malmaison is the hometown of General Napoleon Bonaparte (before he became Emperor). His first wife Josephine de Beauharnais, married in 1796, bought the Château de Malmaison in 1799. Josephine stayed in the Château after their divorce in 1810 until her death in 1814.   The theme for the 2022 Imperial Jubilee is the beginning of the Empire and the establishment of the Court in 1804. Napoleon Bonaparte established an innovative court, that was not an imitation of Versailles, nor the Holy Roman Empire, or the major European courts. From 19-25 September 2022, Rueil-Malmaison showcased events to re-live the lives under the Empire with Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine – court life, military life and civilian life - culminating with the parade on Sunday 25 September.  The parad