Throughout this weekend takes place for the 4th edition of the Imperial Jubilee in Rueil-Malmaison. You know that this city of the heights of the Seine is at the initiative ofa network of imperial cities and which includes in the island of France Compiègne, Fontainebleau, Saint Cloud, Saint Leu la Forêt, Saint Germain en Laye, Rambouillet, Montereau, Maisons Laffitte and Boissy-Saint-Leger.
The history of Rueil-Malmaison is intimately linked to that of Napoleon Bonapartenot yet Emperor and his wife Joséphine Bonaparte, somewhat fickle and not yet Empress and who buy the castle of Malmaison in 1799. For the rest, it is Bernard Chevalier, president of the scientific committee of the jubilee who gives us, in our podcast, crisp details.
And to illustrate Bernard Chevalier’s remarks, also listen to an extract from a radio drama, a household scene between the spouses Bonaparte. While Napoleon prances in the Egyptian desert, Joséphine leads the way in Paris. Napoleon is interpreted by Jean Négroni and Joséphine by Annie Duperey.
Relive this weekend in Rueil Malmaison the habits and customs of the early 19th century, historical reconstructions, 800 soldiers, 100 riders and horses, 500 musicians. And then of course, the Château Malmaison, the sumptuous residence of the Empress Joséphine, who in her life spent without counting, which, testifies Bernard Chevalier, particularly annoyed Napoleon first.
The imperial jubilee is the event in Ile de France. Go there for fun before leaving us, a little piece of household scene between Josephine of Napoleon. I remind you that spouses owe each other mutual respect, fidelity, assistance and fidelity. Finally, there were some penknife strokes in the contract.