Building: Les Invalides
Location: Paris, France
Architect: Liberal Bruant ( Jules Mansart for the royal chapel)
Date: 1676 (1708 for the chapel)
Use: Home/hospitals for Veterans (originally)
Military Museum & Tombs (current)
Style: French Baroque
Originally planned as a place for soldiers to live and received medical attention, the complex is now a military museum that also houses tombs of some war people, including that of Napoleon... which, his body may or may not actually be there. Rising above the treetops is the unmistakable gold dome of the Eglise du Dome, the royal chapel commissioned by Louis XIV, modeled by Mansart after the Vatican's St. Peter's Basilica. I actually liked the building... despite the Napoleon connection.
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