Hôtel des Invalides
Americannoun
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It’s the more common name for Hôtel des Invalides, which houses Napoleon’s tomb.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
Grazia Chiuri’s haute couture show took place on Monday in the searing heat outside in the garden of Paris’s Hôtel des Invalides.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 3, 2017
The concert was canceled, but the Requiem received its premiere soon afterward in a performance at the Hôtel des Invalides in Paris that cemented his reputation as a composer of powerful and innovative music.
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2011
A million francs were voted by the Chambers for the new sepulchre under the dome of the chapel of the Hôtel des Invalides.
From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Edwin Emerson
We visited the Hôtel des Invalides just as they were preparing the sarcophagus for the reception of the remains of Napoleon.
From Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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