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Rueil-Malmaison

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Rueil-Malmaison (rüĕ`yə-mälmāzôN`), town (1990 pop. 67,323), Hauts-de-Seine dept., N central France. It is an industrial center where metals, armaments, photographic equipment, film, pharmaceuticals, and automobile accessories are produced. Food products are also manufactured there. The town was originally a resort of the Merovingian Merovingians, dynasty of Frankish kings, descended, according to tradition, from Merovech, chief of the Salian Franks , whose son was Childeric I and whose grandson was Clovis I , the founder of the Frankish monarchy.
..... Click the link for more information.  kings (5th–7th cent.). It was bought by Cardinal Richelieu, who built an estate there and who carried on extensive construction during the early 17th cent. Napoleon lived there from 1800 to 1804 and the Empress Josephine and her daughter are buried in the town. Napoleon's home, the famous Malmaison, is now a museum housing artifacts from the Napoleonic period.
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Yves Chauvin of the French Petroleum Institute in Rueil-Malmaison, Richard R.
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For the Shell Petroleum Headquarters in residential Rueil-Malmaison, France, she concealed underground parking with a series of lush rolling grass berms separated by the sharp corners of limestone walls as if a green lava flow had buried the rest of the building.
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Students from Virginia School of the Arts in Lynchberg will perform in January in Lynchberg's sister city of Rueil-Malmaison, France at the invitation of that city's mayor.
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