Inside Napoleon’s Favorite Palaces

[@oldmoneymansions]

COMMENT: Which of Napoleon’s favorite palaces is your favorite - and have you visited any of them?

[@aafigreviews5619]

I’ve visited all of them except for St Cloud. My favorite is Fontainebleau followed by Malmaison

[@elizabethpengson8244]

I'm still very upset the Palais de Tuileries was burnt & destroyed during the Commune Riots.. built by Catherine de Medici.. where Napoleon made his official residence.. bummer.. Louis-Napoleon just renovated it as he lived there too.. the damage was so immense it couldn't be restored. Napoleon was said to have liked Fountainbleau a lot.. he also used St Cloud..( St Cloo. D is silent)

[@kayallen7603]

The lack of 'plumbed facilities' rather detracted from the palaces' glamour, however.

[@daniedevite6781]

Are these magnificent palaces still standing

[@timw8228]

Interesting, I had never heard of Schönbrunn Palace. It makes you wonder what it would have been like living in anyone of those palaces during the winter. Good thing a forest was nearby for fire wood. Where they cold and drafty and dimmly lit by candle light? They certainly needed candles and lots of them for chandeliers like those sizes. Not sure which one would be my favorite.

[@elizabethpengson8244]

Napoleon never lived at the Schonbrunn.. that's Austrian.. though his second wife Marie_Louise grew up there.. being a Hapsburg & where Napoleon's only legitimate son lived after Napoleon was in exile in Elba..

[@lmnll2742]

@@elizabethpengson8244 Napoleon stayed there for a few days in 1805 and a few months in 1809.

[@elizabethpengson8244]

@@lmnll2742 well.. password was LIVED as opposed to stayed..Napoleon stayed in a lot of places

[@lmnll2742]

@@elizabethpengson8244 derisory

[@karenisabellestewart851]

Loved Fountanbleu, went thier at least 3 times when visiting France. Versailles gardens I adore, again many visit on trips to France and Mal Maison a more qaint Palace. I guess Foutainblue is my favorite one!

[@AlxzAlec]

7:50 but that's not true though, napoleon crowned himself haha

[@MajorDenisBloodnok]

Versailles was NEVER used as an imperial palace!!! No Court, no diplomatic receptions in this castle. Versailles was too symbolic of the kings for the French people after the Revolution, Napoleon never dared to use it, it would have been bad politic, plus, he found it too expensive. The throne room you show is at the castle of Fontainebleau, and the battles gallery in Versailles was built by king Louis-Philippe after the 1830 Revolution! At Versailles, Napoleon only used the Grand Trianon and the Queen's hamlet for Empress Marie-Louise.

[@jb7287]

Loved how the author slid in a movie preview ...👎👎👎