The Château de Malmaison is a French château situated near the left bank of the Seine, about 15 kilometres west of the centre of Paris, in the commune of Rueil-Malmaison.

On 9 July 1800, Bonaparte gave the commission for a study to be built in place of the three small rooms situated on the southr corner pavilion. Fontaine removed the partition walls and commissioned the Jacob brothers to make the teak woodwork. On 18 September, Fontaine wrote: “Everything is now in place, and even though the First Consul found that the room looked like a church sacristy, he was nevertheless forced to admit that it would have been difficult to do better in such an unsuitable space”.

The Revolution led the owners to sell La Malmaison to Joséphine Bonaparte on April 1799. From 1800 to 1802 this small château became the seat of the French government. After their divorce in 1809, the Emperor gave her the property, and she died here on 29 May 1814.