3. Empress Joséphine created an extensive collection of roses, gathering
plants from her native Martinique and from other places around the world.
She grew some 250 varieties of roses
The Château de Malmaison is a country house (or château) in the city of Rueil-
Malmaison about 12 km from Paris. It was formerly the residence of Joséphine de
Beauharnais
4.
5.
6. Through her daughter,
Hortense, she was the
maternal grandmother of
Napoléon III. Through her
son, Eugène, she was the
great-grandmother of later
Swedish and Danish kings
and queens.
7.
8.
9. After her divorce from
Napoléon, Joséphine
received Malmaison in her
own right, along with a
pension of 5 million francs
a year, and remained there
until her death in 1814
11. Joséphine de Beauharnais née
Tascher de la Pagerie; 23 June
1763 – 29 May 1814 was the first
wife of Napoleon I, and thus the
first Empress of the French. Her
first husband Alexandre de
Beauharnais was guillotined during
the Reign of Terror, and she was
imprisoned in the Carmes prison until
her release five days after Alexandre's
execution