Rueil-Malmaison: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

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

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.

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

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