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Les Invalides is a landmark in Paris, France. It was built between 1670 and 1676 as a place for retirement of French war veterans. It consists of several buildings. It was also used as a burial place for French marshals and generals. Les Invalides is best known for housing the tomb of Napoleon Bonaparte. Nowadays, the complex houses the Museum of Arms, the Museum of Contemporary History, and the Museum of Plains-Reliefs.

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Hôtel des Invalides

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  • Veron-Bellecourt - Napoléon Ier visitant l'infirmerie des Invalides, 11 février 1808

    Napoleon I visiting the infirmary of Les Invalides

  • Paris - Plafond du dôme des Invalides

    De La Fosse's allegories under the dome over the tomb of Napoleon

  • Napoleon II Tomb

    Tomb of Napoleon II at Les Invalides, Paris

  • Stichting invalides

    Louis XIV ordering the construction of Les Invalides

  • Colonnade des Invalides

    The complete project of Jules Hardouin-Mansart, with also south esplanade and colonnade, unfinished

  • Louis XIV Invalides Pierre Denis Martin

    Visit of Louis XIV to Les Invalides. Painting by Pierre-Denis Martin

  • Paris - Orthophotographie - 2018 - Hôtel des Invalides 02

    Aerial view of Les Invalides

  • Paris - Les Invalides - Façade nord - 008

    Northern frontage of the complex, overlooks the esplanade

  • North portal of Hôtel des Invalides, Paris 11 June 2013

    The northern portal of the complex, with Louis XIV with horse on the pediment

  • Cour d'honneur des Invalides 001

    The court of honor of the Invalides

  • Paris - Toiture de la cour d'honneur des Invalides - Sculptures - 0010

    Statue and attic window in the court of honor

  • Statue aux invalides

    Statue of Napoleon in the court

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    The Alexander III bridge was built in alignment with Les Invalides

  • Dome Invalides-IMG 2448

    Sight on the complex and Paris from the dome's top

  • Armoiries-france-invalides-IMG 0831

    Top of the gate that overlooks the northern esplanade

  • Hotel des Invalides seen from the Tour Montparnasse

    From Montparnasse tower

  • MilitaryCostumeEmperorKienLong1736-1796

    The Qianlong Emperor's military costume at the Musée de l'Armée

  • L'architecture. Le passé.-Le présent (1916) - Flickr 14778212605

    The dome has a structure of triple hull

  • Hôtel des Invalides - porte

    The monumental bronze door of the Dome

  • Dôme des Invalides, plan of former Église Royale des Invalides, engraving published 1670

    Plan of the Dome

  • Dôme des Invalides clocheton 2010

    Pinnacle at the top of the dome

  • Dome @ Musée de l'Armée @ Les Invalides @ Paris (25768372166)

    Interior architecture

  • Paris Dôme des Invalides 777

    The grounds are covered with polychrome marble marquetries of the 17th century

  • Napoleons tomb Paris France

    Napoleon's tomb was dug in the center of the dome

  • Dome @ Musée de l'Armée @ Les Invalides @ Paris (25673476082)

    One of the four small side domes

  • Paris invalides cathedrale int

    According to an old tradition, war trophies decorate the vault of the Cathedral of Saint-Louis-des-Invalides

  • Deux " VICTOIRES " et le tombeau de Napoléon 1er

    Two of the twelve marble "victories" which surround Napoleon's tomb

  • Tomb of Joseph Bonaparte at Les Invalides, April 2011

    Joseph Bonaparte's tomb

  • Fochs tomb, Hôtel des Invalides 2012-10-07

    Tomb of Ferdinand Foch - Dôme des Invalides

  • Vaubaninvalides01

    Marshal Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban's tomb

  • Caveau des Gouverneurs

    View of funeral niches in the vaults beneath Les Invalides

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