Beauty and Sadness: The Private Home of Napoleon and Joséphine Bonaparte

The moving history of Josephine's beloved Malmaison, with personal insights from the memoir of her daughter, Hortense de Beauharnais, a first-hand account of this beautiful place and the historical people who moved through it. (link below)

Napoleon's wife, Empress Josephine, was one of the foremost gardeners responsible for many new plant varieties to France, and she is (for me) the original grand dame of today's antique roses.

There's so much history here--It's historian/gardener's dream! We'll explore how so much of Napoleon and Josephine's private and political life took place in this beautiful place.

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Malmaison photo credits
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
tomb : Pierre Cartellier, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... , via Wikimedia Commons
chapel: Moonik, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... via Wikimedia Commons
family with alexander https://picryl.com/media/josephine-ac...
coronation pictures Jettcom, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... via Wikimedia Commons
music room https://picryl.com/media/the-music-sa...
reception https://jenikirbyhistory.getarchive.n...
foyer Pierre Poschadel, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... via Wikimedia Commons
rose1 Rawpixel, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons
rose2 Rawpixel, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... , via Wikimedia Commons
rose3 Henry Joseph Redouté, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
king louis of holland Charles Howard Hodges, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... , via Wikimedia Commons
Hortense and son https://picryl.com/media/hortense-de-...