Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Napoleon's tomb in Paris, France

Hotel des Invalides came from King Louis XIV as a home for soldiers wounded in action, built. After completion of the first building, construction began on the equally impressive, Invalides. Since then, the Hôtel des Invalides has wounded soldiers with a text display military now part of the hotel one of the most important museums of military history contains worldwide. Napoleon would have approved most likely, the Musée de Lármée,Today's Army Museum. It contains about 40,000 specimens, including a large number of valuable weapons and armor. The collection also includes many objects dating from antiquity to the present day. The crypt of the Invalides was specifically redesigned and embellished by the famous architect Visconti had to make it suitable to the last remnants of the once mighty house of Napoleon Bonaparte. Twelve great goddesses of victory that symbolizes the French people, Surroundits Finnish porphyry sarcophagus, which is inside the crypt.

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