FRANCE-PARIS-1117-INVALIDES
November 17th 2009 I found Les Invalides very somber...It is very inviting and picturesque from the outside, but from the inside, I had a different impression...It was probably because I entered from the area of the Dome and the tomb of Napoleon that was brought to Paris From the Island of St Helena in 1840...The tomb is designed such that the visitor bows down from the top level and looks up to it from the bottom l
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