Caillou Museum

The Caillou Museum is housed in the building where Napoleon Bonaparte spent the night and early morning before the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815.

It is located 4 km south of the Lion of Waterloo, at Chaussée de Bruxelles (Brussels high-road) 66, 1472 Genappe. Travelling north from Genappe the high-road passes pass over the Waterloo battlefield through Waterloo and on to Brussels.

History
In 1815 the farmhouse belonged to Séance de Caioux. Napoleon resided there on the night of the 17/18 of June 1815, and it is where Napoleon held his breakfast conference at which he told his marshals "Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad troops, and this affair is nothing more than eating breakfast".

A day after the battle, the Prussians, vowing that it should never again harbour their former enemy, burnt the farmhouse.

Museum
The museum houses unique pieces, such as the Emperor's camp bed and table he used during the campaign.