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Palace of Fontainebleau (/ ˈ f ɒ n t ɪ n b l oʊ / FON-tin-bloh, US also /-b l uː /-bloo; [1] French: Château de Fontainebleau [ʃɑto d(ə) fɔ̃tɛnblo]), located 55 kilometers (34 miles) southeast of the center of Paris, in the commune of Fontainebleau, is one of the largest French royal châteaux.
The Château de Compiègne is a French château, a former royal residence built for Louis XV and later restored by Napoleon. [1] [2] Compiègne was one of three seats of royal government, the others being Versailles and Fontainebleau. It is located in Compiègne in the Oise department and is open to the public.
Joséphine de Beauharnais at Malmaison in 1801 by François Gérard Napoleon Crossing the Alps, a painting by Jacques-Louis David from the Malmaison collection. Joséphine de Beauharnais bought the manor house in April 1799 for herself and her husband, General Napoléon Bonaparte, the future Napoléon I of France, at that time away fighting the Egyptian Campaign.
This category covers the houses and palaces occupied to a significant extent by Napoleon I of France. His final resting place is in the church of Les Invalides in Paris . Pages in category "Palaces and residences of Napoleon"
The castle remained a ruin for more than two centuries. Napoleon I bought it in 1810 for less than 3,000 francs . During the 19th century, with the rediscovery of the architectural heritage of the Middle Ages , it became a "romantic ruin": in August 1832, Louis-Philippe gave a banquet there on the occasion of the marriage of his daughter Louise ...
After Napoleon's divorce, Pierre Paul Prud'hon was commissioned to design the apartments of his new wife, Marie Louise. Her bridal suite was furnished with furniture and interior decorations in the Greek Revival style. The son of Napoleon and Marie-Louise, Napoleon II, was born in 1811. He was given a residence in the Waterside Gallery of the ...
The château seen from its French formal garden The château seen from the tapis vert across the central canal. The Château de Rambouillet (pronounced [ʃɑto də ʁɑ̃bujɛ]), known in English as the Castle of Rambouillet, is a château in the town of Rambouillet, Yvelines department, in the Île-de-France region in northern France, 50 km (31 mi) southwest of Paris.
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte gifted Amboise to Roger Ducos who, after an engineering assessment, decided to destroy a large part of the castle in order to reduce its costs. Ducos was himself exiled in 1816 and Amboise recovered by the Duchess of Orléans , Penthièvre's daughter and mother of future King Louis Philippe I .