Tour of Château de Malmaison in France with Michael Canadas and David Robinson

Private Tour of Château de Malmaison in France with Michael Canadas and David Robinson. The Château de Malmaison, purchased by Josephine in 1799 was, together with the Tuileries, the French government's headquarters from 1800 to 1802.

[@BarbieRocks8888]

So in Awe with the Beauty n Elegance! Thank you for taking us along!💕💕💖

[@MichaelCanadas]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@AnnAndNala]

Thank you for this beautiful tour! The two gentlemen and lady were so lovely to listen to. Really loved it!

[@MichaelCanadas]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@sterlingrose2124]

Such a gorgeous, delightful presentation. Thank you, Michael & David.

[@MichaelCanadas]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@sherryspotts8335]

Thank you so very much for sharing this tour with us!!! Beautiful just Beautiful!!!

[@MichaelCanadas]

You are so welcome

[@ginnywoodhouse6350]

What a treat to be able to see this magnificent home and to experience history from this vantage point. Thank you

[@MichaelCanadas]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@barbaralose8133]

Such a treat! Thank you so much! I plan to visit.

[@juliancoulden1753]

Fascinating and beautiful, thank you for taking the trouble to make this film and publish it.

[@MichaelCanadas]

Our pleasure!

[@francoriaanabrahams8311]

It is such a beautiful chateau, with history and i love it , thnx for the video, 👍❤️🇳🇦

[@MichaelCanadas]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@PRADIER1]

merci pour cette très belle visite !

[@talesfromtheoldredbarn]

Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful video tour. 💜

[@MichaelCanadas]

You are so welcome!

[@WillowTreePottery]

Beautiful job on the filming

[@Craftypumpkin1]

Simply beautiful, Such treasures, the rooms are beautiful, and the colours used are fabulous, What a treat to get to see this, Thank you Michael for the tour and for all your knowledge, I loved it.😊

[@MichaelCanadas]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@ayurvedalifestyle1]

Wow, I love the blue walls with the pink/ red chairs together. Great video guys.

[@MichaelCanadas]

Thanks so much!

[@sjt609]

MAGNIFIQUE!! Thank you for sharing this video. (🇨🇦)

[@MichaelCanadas]

Thanks for watching!

[@sjt609]

@@MichaelCanadas, my pleasure!

[@daviddeveau5101]

Lovely. Thank you. I have been and two of us had the place to ourselves ... what a joy.

[@MichaelCanadas]

Wonderful!

[@noname123412]

thank you for an amazing tour!

[@MichaelCanadas]

Our pleasure!

[@Soda3000Pop]

Such a beautiful chateau and countryside. I love it!

[@MichaelCanadas]

Go see it in life you will love it !

[@lindanorris3226]

ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS PLACE 💫🎀 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING US GUYS 💫🎀 VERY BEAUTIFUL TREES 🌳💫🎀

[@MichaelCanadas]

Our pleasure!

[@jamesallison4875]

That was really special. Merci!

[@MichaelCanadas]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@debbieosborn9464]

Thank you for this fantastic video!

[@MichaelCanadas]

Our pleasure!

[@jasonphilipjudge4865]

Thank you for the tour..

[@MichaelCanadas]

Our pleasure!

[@cassandraralph5906]

Just watched this video again, and I still think it's a absolutely beautiful and warm chateau, even though the furniture and accessories have been set up museum style. I would have liked to see what it really used to look like when Josephine Bonaparte lived there. Loved the colors of the walls and the Regency style of furniture etc. Well done indeed! Thank you!

[@MichaelCanadas]

Wow, thank you!

[@modfus]

This is not French Regency (Régence), it is Empire style Furniture we associate with Napoleon Bonaparte's reign. However, it is contemporary with English Regency furniture which shares the early 19th century fashion for antiquity (ancient and classical styles).

[@TravelNut72]

What a nice tour fellas ! I want to go now.

[@MichaelCanadas]

You should!

[@caryg.259]

The beginning of this post is hysterical , how did you escape the bulls, haha. Thank you for sharing this amazing Chateau.

[@MichaelCanadas]

Good question!

[@bellastone-le9eb]

Thank you. I enjoyed this very much.

[@MichaelCanadas]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@adrienneberger3642]

Magnificent statuary and portraits. Artwork is all outstanding. How is it no one lives there? Furniture is also work of art. One hopes it will be sustained somehow for future habitation.

[@andreewert1142]

Josephine's place..yes I have been there..a lovely chateau..

[@TravelingisFREEDOM]

This is a very charming place, I hope I can return to visit sometime in the future when all this is over. Seeing and sharing places like this is why I love traveling and make videos so much!

[@MichaelCanadas]

You should!

[@piplebref4607]

I just stumbled on this video and it took me right back to my one and only visit to Malmaison some years ago. Such a stylish and beautiful place, so full of atmosphere. A return visit is long overdue. You are right on the money when you mention the Empire style having started with Marie-Antoinette. The set of seat furniture for St Cloud by Sené dating from 1788 (now in the Met) and more than a full decade before Malmaison absolutely attests to this. I also note your comments on the colours. It seems the French work from a completely different palette to the Anglosphere, which may explain why Parisians are currently going nuts for Farrow and Ball!

[@elizabethpengson8244]

let'snot forget,before the Empire period there was the DIRECTOIRE period.. apparently these furniture are so rare as so many have been destroyed ..lost.. so when it comes into auction..so expensive

[@piplebref4607]

@@elizabethpengson8244 There is a definite chronology but I’ve always considered Directoire as something of a brief sidestep and more of a pared down continuation of Louis XVI than a precursor to Empire. The goût étrusque which was embraced enthusiastically by Marie-Antoinette I believe gives far more of a hint of what was to come with the Empire style than Directoire. Just my own interpretation :-)

[@elizabethpengson8244]

@@piplebref4607 yeah..Directoire only took a few years.. interim between Rococo of Louis XVI wh was more graceful & lighter than Louis XIV's Baroque.. & later Napoleon's Empire.. which was taken mostly from the Greeks & N's Egyptian campaign. When I was at Malmaison.. looking around I kept asking the curator IF it was the original furniture.. as I have this bio on LOuisNapoleon & Eugenie.. said Hortense sold off Malmaison & had an auction of it's contents. as all Bonaparts were persona non grata in France.. all of them lived in exile.. the Curator kept telling me.. it is of the period.. not exactly orginals.. esp when I asked about N's desk in his study.. she even got pissed off with me.. oh well.. BUT they were able to find & bought back some.. not the desk.. as when I returned to London where I was living then.. few months later.. right on the cover of House & Garden mag.. was this Napoleonic collection & his desk.. this English couple were avid collectors of all things Napoleon.. & they had hi s desk from Malmaison.. his lamps.. his death mask! one of 3. who knows whose got the third.. as the second is at Musee D'Armee.. I even touched it.. then,it was just sitting on a consul.. imagine.. so thrilling.. I fingered his face.. I do wonder what happened to this couple's collection as it's very high end.. they lived in Knightsbridge but mag never gave the address of course. If I had $$$ I'll collect Napoleonic memorabilia & furniture

[@elizabethpengson8244]

@@piplebref4607 here's an aside tidbit: in another bio.. I read.. when N was getting his grande Armee.. the coffers were empty..so he decided to sell off the the furniture from Versailles,which was in the warehouses.. as that palace changed furniture constantly.. it had solid gold stools along Hall of Mirrors,who these aristos can sit whilst waiting to get an audience with the King.. gold for winter.. solid silver for the summer.. Napoleon sold them all off.. No wonder.. there's so many of these furniture with the Rothschilds. & at the Getty Museum.. & when I was at the Getty. I thought. hmm.. must be fake.. but there it were. REAL.. so I kept telling the curator a t Versailles.. oh your furniture is at the Getty. another.. there's this gorgeous armoire at Marie-Antoinette's bedroom.. Versailles got a copy.. but the genuine one was with Marjorie Post.. the woman who built Mar-A-Lago this estate Trump is so proud of.. he bought it from her daughter Dina Merrill.. she even said in an interview in her mother's bedroom in their estate on SCarolina she kept playing with the secret compartments of Marie-A's armoire.. so gorgeous too.. now, I also wonder what became of that piece..as Dina has passed away.

[@piplebref4607]

@@elizabethpengson8244 There had been solid silver furniture early on in the Grande Galerie at Versailles but it was melted down by Louis XIV to pay for a war. There are currently gilded wood stools there but I don't know how much they would have have been used for any actual sitting given the very strict rules about who could sit at any time and in the presence of whom. From the Bourbons through Napoleon, the Restoration, July Monarchy and Napoleon III there is an almost incalculable amount of this stuff that these people had made, some of which was sold at the time of the Revolution but much still remains in the Garde Meuble National near Paris for use by the French Government. And then of course there is what is now in the Louvre, Versailles and important collections (Getty included) around the world. There seems to be more than enough of it to go round! I remember watching a video on youtube where curators had just finished restoring a room in the Palais Royal and were hoisting a huge chandelier into place. It turned out to be one of the chandeliers used to light Reims cathedral for the coronation of Charles X and this was one of sixteen, used ONCE. It really brought home the sheer scale of how much there is.

[@janetcorey5102]

I visited Malmaison and you gave me the extra time needed to absorb so many of the details! Where are we going next?❤️

[@MichaelCanadas]

Carmel by the sea !

[@evolvingblessed3704]

Truly magnificent. So much beauty that was put in the most simplistic and practical everyday pieces. Chataues are usually cold and drafty. To retain heat they draped the walls with fabric until they started applying fabric and wall paper directly to the walls. This is one of the most beautiful wall drapery applications I have seen. Also the beds and doorways were commonly draped for the same reason, to stay warm. Of course they had access to the finest fabrics of the day. I imagine they would change some of the draperies seasonally, probably the beds. Many just see the luxurious beauty, and it is very beautiful but also very practical to stay warm and survive. Later, in homes the ceilings we're contructed to be not as high, and often if one would purchase a home with high ceilings they would install drop ceilings for practicality because heat rises, But the home would lose a main part of it's granduer. Wonderful tour and video, really enjoyed it. 💕Tfs, just subscribed and looking forward to enjoying your channel, hope you do more Chataue tours.

[@lilybuise8786]

evolving blessed opera a u b

[@evolvingblessed3704]

@@lilybuise8786 Hello Lily, not sure what you are saying in your reply

[@mariaflores-yd1lt]

I'm a dna decendant of Bonaparte as National Geografic

[@evolvingblessed3704]

@@mariaflores-yd1lt That is amazing, you being a descendant of Napoleon. Thank you for sharing that with me. Was your family in the National Geographic?

[@mariaflores-yd1lt]

@@evolvingblessed3704 no, just happened that I did my DNA with National Geogragic before they close their investigation and they match my DNA with him, also Bonaparte was in Cuba, and is on my father side guess from France, I have a lot of cross over DNA with Kings, never new, but with Ancester I have been also able to confirm many of my DNA

[@mykolarynzhuk4896]

Thank you so much!

[@MichaelCanadas]

You're welcome!

[@dear_darling]

this is very beautiful Josephine must have really enjoyed this home

[@MichaelCanadas]

Yes she did .

[@OmaBike]

What a beautiful chateau! I was expecting another chateau reno video.

[@MichaelCanadas]

Glad you liked it!

[@consuelodelgado641]

Wonderful tour, thank you. 😊

[@MichaelCanadas]

Our pleasure!

[@matthewedwards3550]

BRAVO!!!

[@nathaliedufour3891]

Exquisite 👑

[@francinesicard464]

Malmaison should be seen at the end of Spring when the garden is in full bloom.

[@andrea6421]

What a great tour! I love how you showed everything up close and took your time. Also, am I the only one to think that name, Jenny-talia is a little suspect?, lol 😂 Great video though! 2 thumbs up 👍👍😁

[@MichaelCanadas]

Thank you !

[@anitabriski6750]

Must visit

[@BillHosko]

I laughed out loud at min 2:15. Sweet and interesting video. Bravo

[@johnbourke1053]

A glorious chateau,

[@jethrojackson6023]

The Dining Room was the best by far!

[@emeraldgoddess1399]

I think there is certainly classical and rococo but I think it’s feminine not masculine. It’s elegant and tastefully stated. I’ve read a lot about her and her family and Napoleon. Josephine loved roses and muted pink, ‘Josephine rose,’ her daughter Hortense called it. I just watched the rest, the ‘two sewing machines,’ are because she and Hortense spent a lot of time together there and they’d sew little pieces. Thank you for this!

[@alaine57]

Someone always want to have top spot, amazing chateau

[@lindanorris3226]

WOOOOOOOOOOW 🤗💫🌸

[@bonniebeingbonnie001]

New Subscriber - Very enjoyable video.

[@MichaelCanadas]

Thanks and welcome

[@cassandraralph5906]

Very much my style and decor!

[@MichaelCanadas]

Mine too!

[@francinesicard464]

Joséphine de Beauharnais, 1st wife of Bonaparte, had exquisite taste. Michael Canadas, if you could only see the Parisian palace of her son, Eugène de Beauharnais, stepson of Bonaparte, which she decorated, at extravagant costs. The national archives has letters from Bonaparte complaining about it. It's now the private residence of the Ambassador of Germany. The Hotel de Beauharnais has been entirely restored to its original state. It's a splendour, one of the most beautiful "hôtels particuliers" (aristocratic townhouse) in Paris.

[@cassandraralph5906]

Truly beautiful and stunning home

[@MichaelCanadas]

We agree!

[@cindybogart6062]

Extremely beautiful. What city is this in, please? The furniture is amazing. ✨

[@MichaelCanadas]

Just out side of Paris .

[@lindanorris3226]

WE LOVE CHATEAU FRANCE 💖💫🌺

[@janetrogers5429]

Its funny they overthrew the king and queen to live the sameway.

[@alenpaul2523]

😂😂 communist also like that

[@minavanderleest9493]

Everything is about power and wealth.

[@baphomet6666]

@@minavanderleest9493 nobody asked

[@bonniemagpie5166]

Napoleon wasn't the actual one who overthrew King Louis XVl. This place isn't really elaborate.

[@N0N4M30]

Just waaaay more tacky.. Marie Antoinette had way better taste and style !!!

[@ellaw356]

They definitely were trying to go for “Greek / Roman” empire ish look.

[@Engelhafen]

Empire takes it’s inspiration From Egypt

[@XX-gy7ue]

I'VE LOVED JOSEPHINE SINCE I READ ' DESIREE ' DECADES AGO ! MERLE OBERON DIDN'T HURT EITHER !

[@ichi1957]

I just finished reading Desiree last week and I loved it as much as the movie. I found it at my library's used book store. I was curious about having a look at Malmaison and it was lovely. WIsh I could go there, maybe my next trip to France.

[@XX-gy7ue]

@@ichi1957 , after centuries , Josephine still sparkles ! - p.s. my copy was also from a library clearance !

[@chrisbeckstrom6182]

Much too short of a video, I would have enjoyed seeing the whole place. Stunningly elegant.

[@MichaelCanadas]

Next time!

[@supermama8674]

It's a museum house nice historic

[@elizabethclaiborne6461]

The dressing room was for callers to attend the lady at her toilette. The seating and the table are reception room goods. Professional ladies maids had her mostly dressed when she came in; it was social theater.

[@MichaelCanadas]

Thanks for your input !

[@carolinawren3594]

the credits forgot to mention the shoes!

[@charleswalker1185]

The draping of the walls would have cut down on the noise...tapestries helped with this..

[@susandavis6477]

Keeps some warmth in to

[@megankazukibuttons9334]

Often, not all the rooms are open to the public.

[@WillowTreePottery]

Weren't Napolean and Josephine divorced when she lived there, he evidently visited frequently.

[@bonniemagpie5166]

After Napoleon divorced Josephine and then Married Marie Louise (Austrian), they lived together at The Chateau de Compiegne which was initially built for King Louis XV, Napoleon had it restored.

[@dougl945]

The initial E on the toilette set is obviously for the wife of Napoleon III, Empress Eugenie. Or Josephines son Eugene.

[@martinwright4125]

tour of hysterical chateaux. oh, good!

[@susandavis6477]

Imagine my surprise at finding my favorite antique Carmel by the sea doll dealers at Josies place ,lol !

[@sedona687]

Thank God all this beautiful history survived the revolution and the Nazis.

[@MichaelCanadas]

Yes !

[@bewareofpigeons]

The E monogram could be for Empress Eugenie, wife of Napoleon III, or Eugene de Beauharnais.

[@MichaelCanadas]

Yes thank you !

[@chrislarsen2684]

Was Malmaison damaged at all during WWII occupation of the Nazis? I thought they took a lot of the art pieces during the war from historical buildings?

[@totallydomestic433]

Wanted to see the kitchen

[@MichaelCanadas]

Me to !

[@Engelhafen]

That’s not Birdseye maple - It looks like mahogany or walnut

[@bonniemagpie5166]

Simplicity is the word for it after seeing Yusopov Palace. Why did Napoleon like Josephine so much?

[@jethrojackson6023]

She had been married before. Her experience bowled Napoleon over. Pretty much like Meghan and Harry.

[@airplanes42]

Fantastic video but music was too loud

[@MichaelCanadas]

We will try to do better next time !

[@whatevs4531]

It's all very pritty

[@MichaelCanadas]

Yes it is !

[@elizabethpengson8244]

E for Eugene? Josephine's son.. or EUGENIE for Louis-Napoleon's wife. This manse was considered modest for that period & that's what J loved about it.. For her collection of Roses.. Josephine had a green thumb and adored her rose garden.. she had species that weren't even available in France.. to have an idea of what she had.. check out the collection of Rose Prints by REdoute'.. these rose prints that are still so popular were J's roses.. She commissioned him to paint illustrations/watercolours of all her roses.. some the breeds available then are even extinct. Then for the glory of the Empire period. Eugene de Beauharnais bought this manse then totally renovated it .. it is now. the GErman Embassy.. or Residence of the German Ambassador.. the Germans bought it in 1960's.. Napoleon used to go there.. it's in the Left Bank close to the Seine around Musee D'Orsay.. OH MY.. sublime.. and so rich.. it was kept intact. We don;t get a real feel f or Napoleon's residences or very limited as he & J resided at the Tuileries.. N had it renovated for occupancy.. later improved & further renovations by Louis-N.. but this palace was burnt down during the Commune Revolt of the 1860's? so much damage was done that it was never rebuilt.. I still mourn about this.. what a shame. what a loss.. the Tuileries was originally built for Catherine de Medici when she was the Queen mother.

[@tamaliaalisjahbana9354]

Why is it called Malmaison? Does "mal" not mean "bad"?

[@heliedecastanet1882]

The name "Malmaison" comes from the village. A very, very old name, which roots are early medieval. The explanation could be the damages caused by the norsemen during the 9th century there : "Mala Mansion" (mansion is a Latin word that passed in the English language) which could mean : Domain of Misfortunes.

[@zico739]

France, England, and Spain have the best architecture in Europe.

[@harry88james31]

@Izoto, I'm sure the Italians have the best Architecture in the world.

[@user-gm1fk1vd5q]

Voilà où se trouve la ri cheese de France

[@SuperJourneyer]

Another reason the beds are quite short is because they liked to sleep sitting up.

[@MichaelCanadas]

Yes , some people today do that !

[@dnt1951]

15:42 The wife of Napoleon III was called Eugénie.

[@MichaelCanadas]

Yes !

[@user-fn1xc1ot8o]

Все очень интересно,красиво!!Но почему бы не сделать перевод на русский язык титрами,если так нельзя

[@MichaelCanadas]

If you turn on Closed Captioning, you should be able to choose auto translated from English to Russian in the options.

[@galinagaga1559]

Почему нет перевода на русский язык

[@MichaelCanadas]

If you turn on closed captioning, you should have the optin to auto-translate to Russian.

[@midnightchannel7759]

You don't show us the rooms, don't pan the whole room, you focus on paintings insfead, paintings in one cariner, or one wall. It really surprises me tat the entry is a nothing - at least, as you shown it - tiny really, with a really quite humble staircase twisting to a higher level. I would absolutely have experienced a grand, elegant entrance...

[@bonniemagpie5166]

It does look like an Art Gallery, doesn't it!

[@midnightchannel7759]

Napoleon died in Corsica, NOT at Malmaison as you say.

[@richbau57]

Napoleon died on St Helena, not Corsica.

[@MichaelCanadas]

you are right ! thank you.

[@supernovastern1658]

The bed is not short because people was small. It is short because people was sleeping in a sitting position.

[@kia-er2po]

Really??? Why?

[@hatshepsut8329]

Josephine and Napoleon were divorced when she lived there. He did visit, but he had divorced Josephine to marry Marie Louisa, one of Marie Teresa’s daughters so that he could have an heir and form an alliance with Austria given they were the seat of the Holy Roman Emperors. Hitler had his son and only heir exhumed from the Habsburg family tomb and brought to Paris to be reinterred with his father during WWII.

[@elizabethpengson8244]

Actually,it was Napoleon who paid for that house.. JOsephine bought it in 1799.. you're arguing with recorded facts. as it was a personal purchase, Josephine kept it in their divorce. She died at that house.

[@elizabethpengson8244]

PS: after their divorce.. Napoleon gave J the title of Duchess of Navarre.

[@hatshepsut8329]

Thank you, Elizabeth.

[@elizabethpengson8244]

@@hatshepsut8329 I'm a Napoleon buff.. when I was at Malmaison I kept asking curator if it was the original furniture.. as Hortense had an auction of it's contents & why she sold it.. N was sent into exile & all his relatives were kicked out of France.. persona non grata.. Curator told me.. they were able to find some of the furniture but his desk in the Library? NO.. when I returned to London where I was living then.. on the cover of House beautiful.. was Napoleon's desk. this English couple living in Knightsbridge had a LOT of N's personal effects. including one of his death masks.. there were 3.. they had his lamps from his library. wow.

[@elizabethpengson8244]

@@frankmartinelli5204 of course, I know.. he became French citizen on a technicality.. France bought Corsica a year before he was borne.. talk about a Man of Destiny.. another one similar Barack Obama.. Hawaii became the 50th US state a year before he was borne. I laughed when I read that.. about Napoleon.. his paternal forebears originally came form Tuscany.. they're a family of lawyers.. If I am not mistaken.. the name Buonaparte was first recorded in Tuscany around the 14th century.. his father's family moved to Genoa around late 16th century? thereabouts before moving on to Corsica.. His mother came from the Lombardy region.. minor nobility.. I forget the town.. before her family moved South

[@izzy1563]

The E= Emperor or Empress

[@piplebref4607]

It’s actually a barbière (shaving stand) that belonged to Eugène de Beauharnais, Joséphine’s son from her first marriage, hence the “E”.

[@izzy1563]

Fontaine Khaled why is there a crown over it?

[@piplebref4607]

Izzy Eugène was an Imperial Highness, un Prince français. He was also Prince of Venice and Prince of Eichstätt. musees-nationaux-malmaison.fr/phototheque/oeuvres/barbiere-du-prince-eugene-de-beauharnais_bronze_acajou-bois

[@dougl945]

Empress Eugenie.

[@piplebref4607]

Doug L what possible use would the Empress Eugénie have found for a men’s shaving stand? Besides, I have provided a link from Malmaison’s website stating who it belonged to. If they don’t know whose it was, then nobody does!

[@elizabethclaiborne6461]

This is how the White House was originally decorated; US Federalist is Empire. When the British burned the White House the Federslist style furniture was lost. It’s Greek, Roman (which we see on the exterior of Malmaison) and some Egyptian. Early archeology went back to Europe and started a rage! Plenty of this furniture is copied exactly from ancient things.

[@MichaelCanadas]

Yes there was !

[@mariadasgracasmoraesnardi9743]

Vcs deveriam estudar francês antesde se porem a falar os nomes de forma caricatural ,

[@paulburt3112]

No doubt Josephine was as full of herself as.Napoleon. I Wonder how many portraits of themselves are in the house?

[@MajorDenisBloodnok]

A part of the furniture and paintings where not in the house at the time of Joséphine and Napoléon...

[@dmitriilabanov6671]

Степеные, думают что говорят понятны

[@amparocasas1441]

Lo único malo es que la entrevista es el inglés ... El inglés es u idioma tan practico pero tan pobre ! Tan falta de grandeza !