The Château at
Reuil-Malmaison: Visiting Empress Josephine’s Château outside Paris (France) with
Savvy Mom Ruth Paget
The
Empress Josephine’s home at the Château Rueil-Malmaison was twenty minutes away
from my apartment in the Hauts-de-Seine outside Paris (France).
My
husband Laurent and I put baby Florence in her car seat and set out for
Rueil-Malmaison.
We
took the guided tour at Rueil-Malmaison.
I was occupied with Florence, but was able to catch the following bit of
information:
-Napoleon
was one of the first people in France to use art as propaganda. He opened the Louvre to the public. It was only open to the aristocrats and
royals before.
-The
Empress Josephine wore 6 to 7 dresses in one day and would sometimes buy the
same dress twice.
The
French would say that she was “rolled in flour” for buying the same dress
twice.
After
the visit to the Château, we spent three hours relaxing in the Château’s
park. I went from rose bush to rose
bush, inhaling the delightful perfumes of each bush without knowing that we
were in one of the world’s most famous rose gardens.
I
held Florence up to the taller rose bushes and let her smell the roses, too,
making sure she did not grab the thorny stems.
By
Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
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