Hôtel des Invalides Hôtel des Invalides / / gallery 
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Built in 1670 by king Louis XIV to house 4000 war veterans (les invalides), it was raided by Revolutionary mobs in 1789 before they stormed the Bastille. It hosts France's largest military museum, and the tomb of Napoleon I under the golden Église du Dôme.
LOCATION: Paris
DATE: Sun, 30/04/2006
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