Hôtel des Invalides

[ oh-tel dey zan-va-leed ]

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noun

a military hospital built in Paris in the 17th and 18th centuries by Libéral Bruant and J. H. Mansart: famous for its chapel dome, the tomb of Napoleon, and as a military museum.

We visited the Hôtel des Invalides just as they were preparing the sarcophagus for the reception of the remains of Napoleon.

Happily the word has arisen, for no secret can be kept,—that there lie muskets at the Hôtel des Invalides.

A million francs were voted by the Chambers for the new sepulchre under the dome of the chapel of the Hôtel des Invalides.

Napoleon's body finally placed in the cryptof the Hôtel des Invalides.

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