With the rail strike dragging on I'm definitely not going to be able to make it to Versailles, which is a bit miffing. On the other hand, I have walked myself silly the last few days so at least I won't have to suffer sore feet yet again! Yesterday I went to the French Army Museum and Napoleon's Tomb. The tomb is amazing, an exercise in self-loving grandiosity second to none. Even the Prussian kings didn't manage this level of self-worship. The exterior is like St Paul's Cathedral, the Parthenon and the Temple of Zeus combined, the interior is full of towering ceilings painted with scenes of the lovely Mr Bonaparte consorting with angels and the walls are covered in reliefs of Napoleon as either Caesar or God, imparting his knowledge to the world. It's at
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