Dream of revolution inside the 18th-century villa once occupied occupied by Napoleon's French troops

A four-bedroom apartment briefly occupied by French troops during the Napoleonic campaigns is on the market with Sotheby's International Realty , for €1,100,000.

The 340 square metre residence is located inside an an 18th-century Italian villa and comes with three acres of beautiful shared garden.

Villa Gnecchi Ruscone in Verderio, 35 kilometres north-east of Milan, was once the home of the influential Gnecchi Ruscone family who were silk industrialists and patrons of the arts. As well as Napoleon's troops and, if you believe the rumours, Napoleon himself, Giuseppe Garibaldi — the revolutionary and republican who contributed to the Unification of Italy in the 1800s — is also said to have visited.

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