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Fontainebleau

Fontainebleau was the only royal residence to have been continuously used for seven centuries.  During the French Revolution it became

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Tuileries Palace

Napoleon’s original bed from the Tuileries is now displayed in the Empress’ bedchamber in the Grand Trianon at Versailles. In

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Les Invalides

Napoleon’s original camp bed and equipment displayed at Les Invalides. Napoleon was a military man with simple tastes, probably most

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Malmaison

Initially at Malmaison Napoleon slept in Josephine’s bed but later had a bedroom installed above his office and council chamber.

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Grand Trianon

The balustrade, all of the chairs and the linen chests in the Empress’ bed chamber at the Grand Trianon belonged

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The Boudoir

The boudoir at the Grand Trianon had originally been decorated for Napoleon’s mother in 1805.  Napoleon had ordered the Sèvres

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Petit Trianon

Napoleon originally gave the Petit Trianon to his favourite sister Pauline. When he married Marie-Louise, he decided she should have

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After Napoleon

Initially when Napoleon was exiled on Elba, he assumed Marie-Louise would join him there with their son.  To be fair,

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Fontainebleau

Madame de Montesquiou ordered another rocking cradle in elm wood trimmed with laurels (the Roman emblem of victory). As usual,

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Napoleon II

Eight months after the King of Rome’s first—and only– stay at Compiègne, Napoleon headed off for the ill-fated campaign in

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