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and learned: a woman whose natural attractions were abetted by taste and power. Malmaison epitomizes Madeleine Castaing���s assertion that a house reveals more of its owner than a portrait. Indeed, I drew certain conclusions about Josephine based on her tables and chairs, textiles and carpets, bed and draperies. Josephine Beauharnais married Napoleon Bonaparte in 1796; she was his first wife, he, her second husband. In 1797 she purchased Malmaison, a rundown estate in Rueil, near Paris, for 300,000 francs, a sum which infuri- HYLAND

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