Thank you for the video, and I especially appreciate the directions you give for getting there. One bonus for visiting - it seems that there are lot less tourists here.
Visited in May 2022, very beautiful and intimate, I took the metro RER to Saint Germain en Laye, visited the castle there and stopped on the way back to Paris at Malmaison . I remember that it was very hot that day. And later that year I made some artwork for the nephew of Bonaparte. Custom made for his crypt at Farnborough Abby. He was an Emperor too. :)
@@paristoptips Indeed, great client. ;) Very happy. But actually it was the Empress who gave the original assignment. Works of art that were created especially for the crypt of Napoleon III and later stolen ( in 2014). My work are reproductions of the originals.
thank you for that. I've been to Malmaison in the 1980's.. I kept asking the curator is the desk in his library was Napoleon's.. she replied annoyed at me.. it is of the period.. OK. then I returned to London where I living then.. on the cover of House & Gardens were some Napoleonic items.. Well as it turned out.. this English couple were great Napoleonic collectors & they have the actual desk & other items from there. then I learnt reading the Bio of Louis Napoleon & Eugenie.. Horrtense inherited her mother's house..After N's defeat & going into Exile in Elba.. all the Bonapartes were exiled from France. so Hortense hastily sold Malmaison & contents.. & she lived in Switzerland.. They've been trying buy back all the contents that was sold since.. Also.. her gardens.. Josephine was so proud of her rose garden.. She had a green thumb,she had every variety of rose that was available at that time. In fact.. those Rose Prints by Redoute' we keep seeing.? came from Josephine's garden. She commissioned this Belgian painter to do watercolour illustrations of all her roses. I have a book on this too.. worth checking out.. and That how she died.. the first thing the Russian Czar to do in entering Paris was meet Josephine.. & see her famous Rose garden.. she was then given the title of Duchess of Navarre upon their divorce By her Ex.. So she took the Czar on a tour of her garden.. there was chill in the air.. she was dressed lightly w/ a light shawl.. she caught a chill & a cold.. she deteriorated from there.. I see that table I forget what it's called w/all his marshals.. that didn't have the plexiglass protection when I saw it.. N commissioned 3 of those.. one of All the Marhals of his Grand Armee'.. another the Royal Residences they used.. I think the last one was of all the Bonapartes. and that death mask was seating on a console unprotected in the Musee' D'Armee I touched it.. you did a great job showing Malmaison.. I imagine it as it was. from reading.. I love N
@@paristoptips I'm trying to find out.. who's got all those Redoute' water colours.. the originals.. having the book.. I saw the whole collection.. dozens.. so beautiful.. most of those Roses are now extinct. Same token Cocteau was such a groupie of the Ballet Russe.. he kept drawing Nijinsky & Diaghilev etc.. Richard Buckle the Ballet critic had it..then he passed.. whose got it?
Thank you for the video, and I especially appreciate the directions you give for getting there. One bonus for visiting - it seems that there are lot less tourists here.
Yes, it's rarely crowded ...
Как раз в моём бакет-листе. Приятное место, очень понравилось видео. Большое спасибо😊
Thank you so much 🙏
Visited in May 2022, very beautiful and intimate, I took the metro RER to Saint Germain en Laye, visited the castle there and stopped on the way back to Paris at Malmaison . I remember that it was very hot that day. And later that year I made some artwork for the nephew of Bonaparte. Custom made for his crypt at Farnborough Abby. He was an Emperor too. :)
This nephew, Napoleon III, who was president of France and then Emperor, also lived in Malmaison.
@@paristoptips Indeed, great client. ;) Very happy. But actually it was the Empress who gave the original assignment. Works of art that were created especially for the crypt of Napoleon III and later stolen ( in 2014). My work are reproductions of the originals.
thank you for that.
I've been to Malmaison in the 1980's.. I kept asking the curator is the desk in his library was Napoleon's.. she replied annoyed at me.. it is of the period.. OK. then I returned to London where I living then.. on the cover of House & Gardens were some Napoleonic items.. Well as it turned out.. this English couple were great Napoleonic collectors & they have the actual desk & other items from there.
then I learnt reading the Bio of Louis Napoleon & Eugenie.. Horrtense inherited her mother's house..After N's defeat & going into Exile in Elba.. all the Bonapartes were exiled from France. so Hortense hastily sold Malmaison & contents.. & she lived in Switzerland.. They've been trying buy back all the contents that was sold since..
Also.. her gardens.. Josephine was so proud of her rose garden.. She had a green thumb,she had every variety of rose that was available at that time. In fact.. those Rose Prints by Redoute' we keep seeing.? came from Josephine's garden. She commissioned this Belgian painter to do watercolour illustrations of all her roses. I have a book on this too.. worth checking out..
and That how she died.. the first thing the Russian Czar to do in entering Paris was meet Josephine.. & see her famous Rose garden.. she was then given the title of Duchess of Navarre upon their divorce By her Ex.. So she took the Czar on a tour of her garden.. there was chill in the air.. she was dressed lightly w/ a light shawl.. she caught a chill & a cold.. she deteriorated from there..
I see that table I forget what it's called w/all his marshals.. that didn't have the plexiglass protection when I saw it.. N commissioned 3 of those.. one of All the Marhals of his Grand Armee'.. another the Royal Residences they used.. I think the last one was of all the Bonapartes.
and that death mask was seating on a console unprotected in the Musee' D'Armee I touched it..
you did a great job showing Malmaison.. I imagine it as it was. from reading.. I love N
Thanks for all this very interesting information!🙏
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I'm trying to find out.. who's got all those Redoute' water colours.. the originals.. having the book.. I saw the whole collection.. dozens.. so beautiful.. most of those Roses are now extinct.
Same token Cocteau was such a groupie of the Ballet Russe.. he kept drawing Nijinsky & Diaghilev etc.. Richard Buckle the Ballet critic had it..then he passed.. whose got it?
Bonjour.. I must put this on my list of places to visit ❤Thanks ❤
You should! A little far from Paris, but really worth it!
@@paristoptips Thanks for the visit 🙏