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Rueil-Malmaison - Definition

Rueil-Malmaison is a French town near Paris, part of the Hauts-de-Seine département and within the Parisian conurbation. Population (1999): 74,671.

Contents
1 History
2 Miscellaneous
3 Transportation
4 External link

History

Rueil is famous for the Chateau de Malmaison where Napoleon and his first wife Josephine de Beauharnais lived.

During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, Rueil was located on the front line.

At the end of the 19th century famous painters like Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edouard Manet and Claude Monet came to paint the Seine which crosses the city.

Miscellaneous

The main campus of the French Institute of Petroleum is in Rueil.

Transportation

Rueil-Malmaison is easily reachable using the line RER A of the metro, see List of stations of the Paris Métro.

External link


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