🇫🇷 Paris | Hôtel des Invalides: Where History, Glory & Napoleon Rest

A Monument with Two Souls ✨ 1670 Vision: Louis XIV built this gold-domed sanctuary to house wounded soldiers—and it still operates as a veterans' hospital today. 🏥 Treasure Trove: Now home to Musée de l'Armée, one of the world’s greatest military museums, plus Napoleon’s dramatic porphyry tomb. Fun Fact: The complex’s 15 courtyards were designed so cannonballs could roll freely for drainage! 💣 Inside the Museum 🗡️ ✔ Must-See Collections: Medieval Armory: 2,500+ suits of armor (including Henry IV’s dragon-engraved breastplate!) 🐉 Napoleonic Wars: The emperor’s gray overcoat from Waterloo + Austerlitz battle maps 🗺️ WWI & WWII: De Gaulle’s Free France radio microphone 📻 Curiosities Room: Miniature soldier dioramas + 18th-century musical grenades (!) 🎻💣 ✔ Hidden Gems: 3D Tactile Maps from 1700s siege planning Sunset View: Golden light floods Napoleon’s tomb at 6 PM 🌅 Visitor Intel 🎟️ Hours: 10 AM–6 PM (Apr-Oct till 9 PM) Tickets: €17 (covers tomb + all museums) Skip Crowds: Enter via South Esplanade (less queue than North entrance). #Invalides #NapoleonsTomb #MilitaryHistory