Villa La is located on the closed guarded area of Château de Malmaison Park within twenty minutes to Arc de Triomphe and Champs Elysees. There is a well-developed infrastructure of public transport. The villa territory is 1570 m². There are different trees and bushes. Along the border of the villa there is the river arranged in the English style. There is also the grotto remained from the mansion house buildings of Napoleon and Josephine.
The house is 300 m². It has the fireplace hall of 110 m² and 5-meter ceiling, small drawing room with a kitchen, cabinet, five sleeping rooms, kitchen, three bathrooms, and two lavatories. This house will perfectly suit both for living and receiving guests and musical events. The house is in mint condition.
Park and mansion Château de Malmaison.
Josephine de Beauharnais bought the mansion in April 1799. At that time, she was the wife of Napoleon Bonaparte. At that moment, the mansion involved the territory of 150 acres (forests and meadows). Josephine was going to turn the large country house into “the most beautiful and one-of-a-kind garden in Europe”. She was growing rare and exotic plants there, breeding animals. Most plants have preserved on the territory of the park up to the present moment.
The great renown was gained by the rose garden located in Malmaison. For its arrangement, the empress involved landscape architects and gardeners from Great Britain. Josephine wanted have in her garden all known kinds of roses and she brought her dream to life. She has gathered a large collection of roses bringing them from all over the world.
English gardener Kennedy was the primary supplier of roses for Josephine’s rose garden. Despite the war between France and England, he was supplying them to Malmaison through all the barriers. In 1814, the rose collection included 250 kinds of them. An exhibition of the largest rose garden of that time was arranged. The rose garden has preserved up to now on the castle surrounding area.
During the period of prosperity, kangaroos, emus, black swans, zebras, sheep, gazelles, ostriches, chamois, antelopes, lamas, and even web-footed mammals were living on the country house territory. And that is not the full list of animals which were freely living in gardens of Malmaison, i.e. in Josephine’s castle.
When the castle was entirely repaired in the elegant and exquisite style by architects Sh.Persie, P.Fonten, it became the residency of the imperial family. That was Malmaison where Bonaparte took the decision on founding the Legion of Honour. After the divorce in 1809, empress Josephine was continuing to live in that house with rich private life up to the moment of a sudden disease. On May 25, 1814, Josephine’s health condition was worsened after she got cold during walking with Alexander I of Russia. She died on May 29, 1814 from sore throat in the room on the first floor. Josephine was buried in St Pierre-St Paul Church in Rueil-Malmaison.
Picturesque outskirts of the castle still preserve the spirit of wonderful empress sail sings in her small boat by the English river admiring the Temple of love and stopping for cooling in her grotto…
In the course of time, the park has become one of luxurious places in the region of Paris. During the seconds half of XIX century, come areas of the park were sold for construction of private villas.
This magical place has always attracted famous cultural figures, singers, musicians, actors and artists, among them William Slocum DAVENPORT and Salvatore ADAMO, who belong to the house.
Today, this is a closed guarded area where representatives of Middle East, ambassadors, politicians, and businessmen live.
