Napoleon – Page 3 – French Travel Boutique

The year he became Emperor Napoleon had decided to re-establish all the former royal chateaux as imperial palaces. General Duroc*

Three years after starting restoration of the Chateau of Fontainebleau, Napoleon ordered work to start on another former royal residence

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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