ON THIS DAY IN 1911 , the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “PARIS ― Distinguished Americans are hard at work making interesting and yet more interesting for their compatriots the historic Chateau of Malmaison, with all its tragic and its marvelous memories. The Chateau of St. Cloud disappeared with the army of invaders in 1870; that of St. Germain is linked chiefly with the memory of James II of England, who lived there in exile for twelve years; Versailles is dominated by the glories and the favorites of Louis XIV; Compiegne is a country house in a forest, where Napoleon III tried to win Eugenie without the benediction of the Church; Fontainebleau divides its honors with Francis I and Henry IV. But Malmaison is what it is solely because Josephine Beauharnais Tascher de la Pagerie Bonaparte

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