Les Invalides in Paris, France consists of a complex of buildings in the 7th arrondissement containing museums and monuments, all relating to the military history of France, as well as hospital and retirement home for war veterans, the original purpose of the building. It is also the burial site for several French war hero.
King Louis XIV started the project with the order dated November 24, 1670, as home and hospital for aged and healthy soldiers: the name is a shortened form of the Hopital des Invalides, a hospital for the handicapped. Architect Les Invalides is a Liberal Bruant. The site chosen was the outskirts of town in the 17th century. At the enlarged project was completed in 1676, the river front measured 196 meters and the complex was fifteen pages, the largest to be cour d'Honneur ("court of honor") for military parades.
St. Peter's Basilica
Then felt that the veteran needed a chapel, Jules Hardouin Mansart where help Bruant age, and finish it in 1679 to Bruant design after the architect's death the eldest. The chapel is known as Eglise Saint-Louis des Invalides. Daily attendance is required.
Shortly after the veteran completed chapel, Louis XIV had Mansart construct a separate private royal chapel, often referred to as the Eglise du Dome of the most striking feature (right Ill.). Inspired by St. Peter's Basilica in Rome (left), native to all Baroque dome, this is one victory of French Baroque architecture. Mansart lift drum with an attic level above the main cornice, and employs the column motif pair in his more complicated rhythmic theme | u | | | uu | | u | |. General program is a statue but an integrated, rich but balanced, consistently carried through capping vertical thrust firmly with a dome-less assertive fins and hemispherical. Domed chapel is centrally placed to dominate the court of honor. It was completed in 1708.
The inside of the dome (illustration, below right) painted by Le Brun's disciple Charles de La Fosse (1636-1716) with a Baroque illusion of space seen from below (with the perspective of su, the Italians call it). The painting was completed in 1705.
Tomb
The most notable tomb at Les Invalides is that of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) in the crypt under Mansart's dome. Napoleon was initially interred in Saint Helena, but King Louis-Philippe arranged for his remains were taken to St. Jerome's Chapel in Paris in 1840. A renovation of Les Invalides took many years, but in 1861 Napoleon was moved to the most prominent location under the dome at Les Invalides.
The most notable tomb at Les Invalides is that of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) in the crypt under Mansart's dome. Napoleon was initially interred in Saint Helena, but King Louis-Philippe arranged for his remains were taken to St. Jerome's Chapel in Paris in 1840. A renovation of Les Invalides took many years, but in 1861 Napoleon was moved to the most prominent location under the dome at Les Invalides.
Architecture On the north front of Les Invalides (illustration, left) Hardouin-Mansart chapel dome is large enough to dominate the long facade door is not aligned with the Liberal Bruant under a pedimen curve. To the north of the page (cour d'Honneur), extended by a public esplanade (Esplanade des Invalides) where the embassies of Austria and Finland are neighbors of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France, all one grand open space forming the heart of Paris. At its end, the Pont Alexandre III links this axis with the grand urbanistic Petit Palais and Grand Palais. (Pont des Invalides is next, downstream of the river Seine).
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