Editing Les Invalides (section)

== Plan of Les Invalides ==

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| style="text-align:center" colspan="2"| [[File:Plan of Hôtel des Invalides, Paris.svg|400px|center|Le plan de l'Hôtel des Invalides]]
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{{legend|#B26459|Dome of Les Invalides}}
{{legend|#E5CD66|[[Cathedral of Saint-Louis-des-Invalides, Paris]]}}
{{legend|#698CB5|[[Musée de l'Armée]]}}
{{legend|#F2CDC7|[[Musée des Plans-Reliefs]]}}
{{legend|#F28D61|Musée de l'Ordre de la Libération}}
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{{legend|#D64D64|Institution nationale des Invalides}}
{{legend|#963D97|Gouverneur des Invalides}}
{{legend|#5D9D7A|Gouverneur militaire de Paris}}
{{legend|#4490BA|Chancellerie de l'Ordre de la Libération}}
{{legend|#70876E|Office national des anciens combattants et victimes de guerre}}
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* 1. Cour d'honneur
* 2. Cour d'Angoulème
* 3. Cour d'Austerlitz
* 4. Cour de la Victoire
* 5. Cour de la Valeur
* 6. Cour de Mars
* 7. Cour de Toulon
* 8. Cour de Nismes
* 9. Cour de Metz
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* 10. Cour de l'Infirmerie
* 11. Cour d'Oran
* 12. Cour de la Paix
* 13. Cour d'Arles
* 14. Cour d'Alger
* 15. Cour Saint-Louis
* 16. Cour Saint-Joseph
* 17. Cour Saint-Jacques
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Hardouin-Mansart's Dome chapel is large enough to dominate the long façade yet harmonizes with Bruant's door under an arched pediment on the north front of Les Invalides. To the north, the courtyard (cour d'honneur) is extended by a wide public esplanade (''Esplanade des Invalides'') where the embassies of Austria and Finland are neighbors of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, all forming one of the grand open spaces in the heart of Paris. At its far end, the [[Pont Alexandre III]] links this grand urbanistic axis with the [[Petit Palais]] and the [[Grand Palais]]. The [[Pont des Invalides]] is next, downstream the Seine river.

The buildings still comprise the Institution Nationale des Invalides,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://homepage.mac.com/fnpgig/institutionnationaleinvalides.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110831113647/http://homepage.mac.com/fnpgig/institutionnationaleinvalides.html|title=Institution Nationale des Invalides|archive-date=31 August 2011}}</ref> a national institution for [[disabled]] [[war veteran]]s. The institution comprises:
* a retirement home
* a medical and surgical centre
* a centre for external medical consultations.

===Gallery===

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File:Paris - Orthophotographie - 2018 - Hôtel des Invalides 02.jpg|Aerial view of Les Invalides
File:Paris - Toiture de la cour d'honneur des Invalides - Sculptures - 0010.jpg|Statue and attic window in the court of honor
File:Vive L'Empereur, Musée de l'Armée, August 2013 002.jpg|"Long Live the Emperor" in the court
File:HoteldesInvalides-005-P07.jpg|The [[Pont Alexandre III|Alexander III bridge]] was built in alignment with Les Invalides
File:Dome Invalides-IMG 2448.jpg|Sight on the complex and Paris from the Dome's top
File:Armoiries-france-invalides-IMG 0831.jpg|Top of the gate that overlooks the northern esplanade
File:Hotel des Invalides seen from the Tour Montparnasse.JPG|From [[Montparnasse tower]]
File:L'architecture. Le passé.-Le présent (1916) - Flickr 14778212605.jpg|The Dome has a structure of triple hull
File:Hôtel des Invalides - porte.jpg|The monumental bronze door of the Dome
File:Dôme des Invalides, plan of former Église Royale des Invalides, engraving published 1670.jpg|Plan of the Dome
File:Dôme des Invalides clocheton 2010.jpg|Pinnacle at the top of the Dome
File:Dome @ Musée de l'Armée @ Les Invalides @ Paris (25768372166).jpg|Interior architecture
File:Paris Dôme des Invalides 777.JPG|The grounds are covered with polychrome marble marquetries of the 17th century
File:Napoleons tomb Paris France.jpg|[[Napoleon's tomb]] was dug in the center of the Dome
File:Paris - Plafond du dôme des Invalides.jpg|Cupola of the Dome
File:Dome @ Musée de l'Armée @ Les Invalides @ Paris (25673476082).jpg|One of the four small side cupolas
File:Paris invalides cathedrale int.jpg|According to an old tradition, [[War trophy|war trophies]] decorate the [[Vault (architecture)|vault]] of the Cathédrale Saint-Louis-des-Invalides
File:MilitaryCostumeEmperorKienLong1736-1796.jpg|The [[Qianlong Emperor]]'s military costume at the [[Musée de l'Armée]]
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