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    It is located near the intersection of the Boulevard du Triomphe/Triomflaan and the Boulevard des Invalides/Invalidenlaan and provides access to the adjacent...
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    the Emperor's tomb here, before the remains were moved to the Hôtel des Invalides. However, the top of the hill remained uncultivated until it was leveled...
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    train before being withdrawn in 1921 and placed on display in the Cour des Invalides, Paris until 1927, when it was moved to Compiègne for display. It remained...
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    of his continued care for the capital, Louis constructed the Hôtel des Invalides, a military complex and home to this day for officers and soldiers rendered...
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    arrondissement, opposite the Hôtel du Châtelet and close to the Hôtel des Invalides. The Faubourg Saint-Germain has long been known as the favourite home...
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    magistrature". Revue catholique des institutions et du droit (in French). 68 « LVIIIe année ». Paris ; Lyon ; Grenoble ; Bruxelles ; Poitiers: 385–414. Archived...
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    Maxime Weygand (category Recipients of the Croix de guerre des théâtres d'opérations extérieures)
    refusal in 1965 to permit a funeral mass in the church of Saint Louis des Invalides for the 98-year-old general who had served France faithfully and well...
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    Nicolas d'Orange des Roches [fr] (1626–1705), brigadier of the Armies of the King under Louis XIV, Governor of the Hôtel des Invalides Gilles Le Hédois [fr]...
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    others, mostly from 1673-1674 Baroque Hercules mascaron of the Dôme des Invalides, Paris, by Jules Hardouin-Mansart, 1677–1706 Baroque mascaron in the...
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    patrimoine européen [Stones of European Heritage] (in French). Bruxelles: Editions du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. "Château de Montsoreau...
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