Malmaison, a historical château 10 m. W. of Paris; belonged originally to Richelieu; saw the last days of Joséphine, whose favourite residence it was, and was the scene of the repulse of Ducrot's sortie in October 1870.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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