RUEIL  , a

town of N . France, in the department of Seine-et-Oise, at the W. foot of Mt Valerien, 6 m . W. of Paris by tramway . Pop . (1906) 10,439 . Rueil has a church rebuilt under Napoleon III. in exact imitation of a previous church in the Renaissance style, and containing the tombs of the Empress Josephine and her daughter Hortense de Beauharnais . In the 17th century Richelieu built a chateau which no longer exists . Rueil has important photographic works and manufactures of lime and cement, &c . Close to the town is the chateau of Malmaison, a building of the 18th century famous as the residence of the empress Josephine . It was afterwards occupied by Maria Christina, queen of Spain, and by the empress Eugenie . In 1900 the owner, Daniel Osiris, presented it and the park to the nation; the apartments have been as far as possible restored to the condition in which they were when inhabited by Josephine and Napoleon .