sentences:  Napoléon returned and took residence in the house after his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo (1815), before his exile to the island of Saint Helena.After Josephine's death in 1814, the house was vacant at times, the garden and house ransacked and vandalised, and the garden's remains were destroyed in a battle in 1870.In 1842 Malmaison was purchased by Queen mother Maria Christina, widow of King Ferdinand VII of Spain.