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The chateau de Malmaison is a French chateau that was bought by Josephine in 1799 and became the French government’s headquarters after her husband Napoleon Bonaparte became the emperor in the 1800s. It was located west of the center of Paris (Approximately 50 feet) in Rueil-Malmaison and was renovated after the purchase by two architects by the names of Pierre Francois Leonard Fontaine and Charles Percier, while the queen and her husband vacationed to Egypt. A military tent was used to set up an entrance for the antique styled building created by in 1800. The tent accented the entrance and once inside it opened toward a main entrance hall. The entrance hall then passed a billiard-room, where the guests would usually end during venues, and after the grand entrance and the structured set up of the two rooms it finally entered into the Salon which included dismantled paintings by Josephine, along with her harp, and the Queen’s piano. The Salon proudly embraced two painti...