page_title: Les Invalides
section_title: Tombs and vaults
hierarchical_section_title: Les Invalides / Tombs and vaults
caption_attribution_description: Vue du plafond du dôme des Invalides à Paris
context_page_description: Les Invalides, formally the Hôtel national des Invalides, or also as Hôtel des Invalides, is a complex of buildings in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France, containing museums and monuments, all relating to the military history of France, as well as a hospital and a retirement home for war veterans, the building's original purpose. The buildings house the Musée de l'Armée, the military museum of the Army of France, the Musée des Plans-Reliefs, and the Musée d'Histoire Contemporaine, as well as the Dôme des Invalides, a large church, the tallest in Paris at a height of 107 meters, with the tombs of some of France's war heroes, most notably Napoleon.
caption: De La Fosse's allegories under the dome over the tomb of Napoleon
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