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Beginning in 1853, under Napoleon III, the corridor was turned into a library and most of the paintings were removed, with the exception of a large portrait of Henry IV on horseback by Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse. The large globe near the entrance of the gallery, placed there in 1861, came from the office of Napoleon in the Tuileries Palace. [60]
Louis Philippe occupied the palace until 1848, when it was again briefly invaded, and the King chased out during the French revolution of 1848. [13] Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, the nephew of Napoleon, was elected as the first President of France in 1848, and occupied the Elysée Palace. In 1852, when he could not run again, he crowned himself ...
Napoleon visited in 1799 and again in 1803. In 1804 the château became an imperial domain and in 1807, he ordered it to be made habitable again. Louis-Martin Berthault , Charles Percier and Pierre François Léonard Fontaine , decorators Dubois and Pierre-Joseph Redouté , and cabinetmakers François-Honoré-Georges Jacob-Desmalter and Marcion ...
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"
Napoleon was initially interred on Saint Helena, but King Louis Philippe arranged for his remains to be brought to France in 1840, an event known as le retour des cendres. Napoleon's remains were kept in the Saint Jerome (southwestern) chapel of the Dome church for more than two decades until his final resting place, a tomb made of red ...
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.
Napoleon's tomb (French: tombeau de Napoléon) is the monument erected at Les Invalides in Paris to keep the remains of Napoleon following their repatriation to France from Saint Helena in 1840, or retour des cendres, at the initiative of King Louis Philippe I and his minister Adolphe Thiers.
During the Second Empire, Napoleon III and his wife Eugénie stayed at Saint-Cloud in the spring and the autumn. Napoleon III had the orangery demolished in 1862 and Eugénie transformed the bedroom of Madame into a salon in the Louis XVI style. The castle was used during much of the nineteenth century to welcome members of European royal families.