Thursday, February 10, 2011

Hotel des Invalides -- Pt 1 (Nerdiness)

The hotel des Invalides was originally built by Louis XIV but is most well known because of Napoleon. It has le Musee de l'armee, musees des plans-reliefs, and le musee d'histoire contemporaine. It's a really pretty building, with a gold dome.


 This is the church de Saint-Louis des Invalides. Which has an awesome organ and really cool old flags.
 Below, is all stuff from Musketeers, they were real....
 These are the keys to the Castle of Milan


This is Napoleon Ier's tent from his wars. 

 This is a painting of a depressed Napoleon 1er after Waterloo
 This is le cimetiere de St. Privat

 This is the armour and horse's armour of Francois 1er
 Francois II
 Charles IX
 Henri III
 a random baby's armor (cute but creepy)
 Henri IV's sword
 Henri IV's armour
 Louis XIII as a child's armour
 Louis XIV
 From about  400 years before Christ
 About 2000 before Christ
 8000 years before Christ
 This is Napoleon's tomb...it is humongous!! and ridiculous looking...
 Crazy alter thing above the tomb
 One of the statues of Napoleon's victories... kinda creepy

 Napoleon's tomb... craziness

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