Hôtel des Invalides

American  

[oh-tel dey zan-va-leed] / oʊ tɛl deɪ zɛ̃ vaˈlid /

noun

1. a military hospital built in Paris in the 17th and 18th centuries by Libéral Bruant and J. H. Mansart: famous for its chapel dome, the tomb of Napoleon, and as a military museum.

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Example Sentences

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 Emerson, Edwin

There is also a very fine model of the Hôtel des Invalides itself.

From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Frye, Major W. E