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    The Hôtel des Invalides (French pronunciation: [o.tɛl dez ɛ̃valid]; lit. 'House of the Invalids'), commonly called Les Invalides (French pronunciation:...
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    Saint-Louis-des-Invalides, Paris Hôtel Matignon Hôtel de Boisgelin (Rue de Varenne, Paris), historic building, home to the Italian embassy in Paris. Hôtel de Besenval...
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    on line 8 of the Paris Métro. It is located to the northwest of Hôtel des Invalides in the 7th arrondissement. It is named after the Boulevard de la...
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    of the Esplanade des Invalides near the intersection of Rue de Constantine and Rue de l'Université. Street-level entrance at Invalides MF 77 rolling stock...
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    chapels. Contains: The Veteran's Chapel The Dôme des Invalides is the emblem of the Hôtel National des Invalides and an unmissable monument in the Parisian...
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  • Times: Hôtel des Invalides". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2011. Archived from the original on 20 May 2011. Retrieved 3 August 2008. Hôtel des Invalides...
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    institution of the Hôtel des Invalides (French: Hôtel des Invalides) of Paris. Since creation, the Hôtel des Invalides (French: Hôtel des Invalides) was directed...
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    Invalidovna (French "hôtel des invalides") is a building in Karlín, a district of Prague, Czech Republic. Invalidovna was built in 1731–1737 as a dormitory...
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    The Musée des Plans-Reliefs (French pronunciation: [myze de plɑ̃ ʁəljɛf]) is a museum of military models located within the Hôtel des Invalides in the 7th...
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    as the Hôtel-Dieu de Beaune. The Hôtel des Invalides in Paris retains its early sense of a hospital for war wounded. Hôtel d'Arbaud-Jouques Hôtel de Boisgelin...
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    November 1697) was a French architect best known as the designer of the Hôtel des Invalides in Paris. Bruant was the most notable member in a family that produced...
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    at Chantilly (1676–1680) Church of Saint-Louis-des-Invalides and a portion of the Hôtel des Invalides (1676–1706) Episcopal Palace of Castres (1677–1679)...
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  • factories. Franju's third film commissioned by the French government, Hôtel des Invalides (1951), was a look at life inside a veterans' hospital. The film...
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    France from the island of Saint Helena to France and the burial in Hôtel des Invalides in Paris in 1840, on the initiative of Prime Minister Adolphe Thiers...
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    December 2024. In 1649, as part of his plan for the construction of the Hôtel des Invalides, Louis XIV decided to restore the old "Chemin du Bois de la Garenne...
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    Empire during the Napoleonic Wars. He later became governor of the Hôtel des Invalides. Moncey is one of the names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe,...
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    July Revolution and served in his last years as governor of the Hôtel des Invalides. Jourdan was born in Limoges, in the province of Limousin, on 29...
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    for example, the Château de Fontainebleau in Fontainebleau, the Hôtel des Invalides in Paris, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (on loan from the Museum Boijmans...
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    reorganization of the military orders of merit, his foundation of the Hôtel des Invalides, and the almost forcible enrollment of the nobility and gentry of...
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    es:Convento de la Asunción (Almagro)) Neoclassical architecture (Hôtel des Invalides) Rundbogenstil (Karlsruhe Polytechnic) Modernist architecture (University...
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    Revolutionary France's National Guard), had earlier stormed the Hôtel des Invalides without meeting significant opposition. Their intention had been...
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    Charged by King Louis XV to design a grander building than the Hôtel des Invalides (constructed by Louis XIV), Ange-Jacques Gabriel broke ground in...
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    Arc de Triomphe (category Monuments of the Centre des monuments nationaux)
    from the original on 20 January 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2021. Hôtel des Invalides website Archived 25 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine. "History of...
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    leading to 42 Avenue de La Motte-Picquet; Entrance 2: Avenue Duquesne–Hôtel des Invalides, consisting of a fixed staircase, located to the right of 41 Avenue...
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    Saint-Germain in the 7th arrondissement, opposite the Hôtel du Châtelet and close to the Hôtel des Invalides. The Faubourg Saint-Germain has long been known...
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    Paix, proposed that the column be disassembled and preserved at the Hôtel des Invalides. Courbet argued that: In as much as the Vendôme Column is a monument...
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    the Salis-Samade Regiment. Unlike Sombreuil, the governor of the Hôtel des Invalides, who had accepted the revolutionaries' demands earlier that day,...
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    Saint-Jean d'Angély died in Cannes in 1870 and was buried in the Hôtel des Invalides in Paris.[citation needed] Chisholm 1911, p. 47.  This article incorporates...
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    The Pont des Invalides (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃ dez‿ɛ̃valid]) is the lowest bridge traversing the Seine in Paris. The story of this bridge started...
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  • world, supposedly produced by folk etymology such as "Invalid Hotel" for "Hôtel des Invalides", "Champs Ulysses" for "Champs-Élysées" or "Guarded Lion"...
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