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OT-Rueil-4561

Rueil-Malmaison
Ville historique  
À 8 km de Paris  
92500 RUEIL-MALMAISON (Hauts-de-Seine)
Tél 01 47 32 35 75 - Fax 01 47 14 04 48

The Emperor Napoleon and the Empress Josephine knew a few years of great happiness in Rueil and the trace of this certainly still remains vividly now.
The town is just 8 km west of Paris in the department of the Hauts de Seine, it covers 1472 hectares of gentle slopes, the heights of the Mont Valérien and the gentle Buzenval hills, until the Seine River banks.
A former Rural circonscription, vegetable growers town, renowned for its pure water, Rueil has become a present day modern city, seat of numerous offices and big firms.
The residential districts have been nonetheless preserved as have also been maintained its natural sites and blooming gardens making it a green, harmonious and human town, the old Rueil centre has kept its village feeling with Saint Peter and Paul’s Church, classified as a historical monument as its nucleus.
The Seine banks north of Rueil, foreground of Impressionist territory farther on still bear witness to their past history :
The famous “Guinguettes” on the Seine riverside take us back to when painters such as Renoir, Monet or Manet Found subject matter for their art here as can now be seen in many of their works.
One can still stroll along the Seine Towards Bougival and Nanterre, under the weeping willows, as in days gone by.

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