Tuileries Palace – French Travel Boutique

Napoleon – Four stages Carlo Buonaparte Napoleon was born in Corsica three months after it officially becoming part of France.

Marie-Louise’ magnificent bed at Compiegne has the baldequin held by cherubs (the theme of the décor is abundance and fertility)

In 1784 the Count de Vaudreuil purchased a grand residence in Paris and filled it with the latest furniture and

Louis XV was the great grandson of Louis XIV and was only five years old when he became King of

Louis-Philippe and Marie-Amelie had ten children including a daughter Louise who married the King of Belgium. When Louise visited her

Louis-Philippe, known as the “citizen king” or “bourgeois king” was a direct descendant of both Louis XIV and his brother

At the Grand Trianon, the Empress’ bedroom is part of the Empress Marie-Louise apartment. This had originally been two rooms.

Napoleon was madly in love with his new wife and constantly wrote her steamy love letters from Italy. He was

The huge (almost 10 meters long) painting by of Napoleon’s coronation, by Jacques-Louis David. It shows Napoleon crowning Josephine as

Five years after the ceremony which made Josephine an Empress, Napoleon decided to divorce her so he could produce an