🇫🇷 Paris | Hôtel des Invalides: Napoleon’s Golden Tomb & Legacy ⚜️⚰️

A Tomb Fit for an Emperor ✨ Under the 107m Golden Dome, Napoleon rests in six nested coffins (mahogany ➡️ lead ➡️ ebony ➡️ more lead) within red porphyry—a stone reserved for Roman emperors. 🏛️ "10 Great Deeds" Wall: The crypt’s murals list his bourgeois revolution—Civil Code, secular education, Paris sewers (!)—proving he was no ordinary monarch. 📜 Fun Fact: The tomb’s alignment lets sunlight hit the sarcophagus every May 5 (his death anniversary). ☀️ Beyond Napoleon ⚔️ ✔ Famous Neighbors: Napoleon’s brother Joseph 👑 WWI hero Marshal Foch (his staff car is displayed upstairs!) 🚗 Assassination victims of 1848 (killed by a Bonapartist fanatic 😱) ✔ Chinese Connection: Every exhibit here has Mandarin captions—Napoleon remains China’s most studied foreign ruler. Visitor’s Epiphany 💭 *"Washington left a stable-but-dull system; Napoleon’s drama still electrifies France 200 years later. History loves epic tales—but are they good blueprints for life?"* Don’t Miss: Mint your own €2 commemorative coin at the exit! 💰 #NapoleonComplex #ParisHistory #TombWithAView