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After Empress Josephine

1789-1815Paris and Europe

The same fall belongs to the Revolutionary Age.

Longwood and Malmaison only make full sense inside the rupture that runs from revolution to empire to final defeat.

A generation-long rupture in which monarchy falls, republic rises, empire follows, and exile closes the arc.

This step moves the visitor from private rooms into the larger human setting they belong to.

Napoleon and Josephine stay connected because the age itself keeps pressing through their rooms, relationships, and endings.

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  • Known

    The Revolutionary Age is commonly treated as the period from 1789 to 1815, centred on France and extending across Europe.

  • Uncertainty

    Those date boundaries are conventional rather than timeless. Some accounts extend the period to Napoleon's death in 1821.