Les Invalides

Les Invalides formally the Hôtel national des Invalides (The National Residence of the Invalids), is a complex of museums and historical buildings in Paris, France. The Les Invalides complex contains numerous museums and monuments, all relating to the military history of France, as well as a hospital and a retirement home for war veterans, the building’s original purpose.

The Les Invalides complex houses:

• Musée de l’Armée, the military museum of the Army of France
• Musée des Plans-Reliefs
• Musée d’Histoire Contemporaine
• The Cathedral of Saint-Louis des Invalides
• Dôme des Invalides, a large church, the tallest in Paris
• Tomb of Napoleon.

Highlights of Les Invalides

• Tomb of Napoleon
• Musée de l’Armée
• Musée des Plans-Reliefs

Les Invalides

• Name:             Les Invalides
• City:                 Paris
• Country:          France
• Created:          1862
• Type:               Museums and monuments complex
• Address:          Rond-Point du Bleuet de France, 75007 Paris, France

A Tour of the Museums in Paris

• The Louvre
• Musée National du Moyen Age – Thermes De Cluny (National Museum of Medieval Art)
• Musée d’Orsay
• Musée Rodin
• Paris Museums
• Musée Carnavalet
• National Archaeological Museum, France
• Les Invalides
• Musée Marmottan Monet

A Tour of European Museums

• France Museums
• Italy Museums
• Greece Museums
• Germany Museums
• Austria Museums
• Ireland Museums
• Netherlands Museums
• Spain Museums
• Belgium Museums
• Serbia Museums
• Poland Museums
• Switzerland Museums
• Czech Museums
• Norway Museums
• Sweden Museums
• Hungary Museums
• Portugal Museums

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– French Proverb

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