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Rueil is famous for the Chateau de Malmaison where Napoleon and his first wife Josephine de Beauharnais lived.
During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, Rueil was located on the front line.
At the end of the 19th century famous painters like Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edouard Manet and Claude Monet came to paint the Seine which crosses the city.
The main campus of the French Institute of Petroleum is in Rueil.
Rueil-Malmaison is easily reachable using the line RER A of the metro, see List of stations of the Paris Métro.