After Napoleon Bonaparte
The same love-struck collapse belongs to the Revolutionary Age.
Malmaison and Longwood only make full sense inside a wider world where revolution overturns institutions and empire leaves private wreckage behind it.
A rupture in which intimacy, rank, revolution, and empire cannot be kept apart from one another.
This step moves the visitor from one house and one exile into the larger human setting that joins them.
The era step explains why a relationship can carry the force of political history without being reduced to it.
Return to Josephine with the wider age behind her in view.
After widening to the age, Malmaison reads less like a private retreat and more like one human chamber holding the aftershock of a continent.
The wider age closes again in one house.
Malmaison gives the rupture a final human location instead of leaving it abstract.
Known
The repository's governed era registry places Josephine's time-anchor year within the Revolutionary Age.
Uncertainty
Court life, divorce, and the aftermath of 1814 are only partially captured by the wider Revolutionary Age grouping.