Lebrun says: "I do not believe Queen Marie Antoinette
ever allowed an occasion to pass by without saying an agreeable thing to
those who had the honor of being near her."
Malmaison
By Augustus J. C. Hare
[Footnote: From "Days Near Paris."]
The station is opposite a short avenue, at the end of which on the right,
is the principal entrance to Malmaison. A little higher up the road at the
right is a gate leading to the park and gardens, freely open to the
public, and being sold (1887) in lots by the Stat. There is a melancholy
charm in the old house of many recollections--grim, empty, and desolate;
approached on this side by a bridge over the dry moat. A short distance
off, rather to the left, as you look from the house, is a very pretty
little temple--the Temple of Love--with a front of columns of red Givet
marble brought from the chateau of Richelieu, and a clear stream bursting
from the rocks beneath it.
Malmaison is supposed to derive its name from having been inhabited in the
XI century by the Norman brigand Odon, and afterward by evil spirits,
exorcised by the monks of St.
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