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Empress Josephine's collection of old master paintings at her ch'teau of Malmaison, outside Paris, was rightly regarded as one of the finest in Europe. After her divorce from Napoleon, Josephine was befriended by Tsar Alexander I of Russia, and on her death in 1814, he acquired a significant part of the collection. This text shows these works in their proper context once more.Althaus, Frank is the author of 'France in Russia: Empress Josephine's Malmaison Collection', published 2008 under ISBN 9781906257002 and ISBN 1906257000.
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