INVALIDES, HÔTEL DES

ōtĕlˈ dāzăNvälēdˈ, celebrated landmark of Paris, France, built (1671–76) by Libéral Bruant as a hospital for disabled veterans. One of the most imposing examples of French classical architecture, it now houses a military museum. It faces the vast Esplanade des Invalides. Behind it, in the court of honor, is the church and Dôme des Invalides (1679–1706), the masterpiece of J. H. Mansart. Under the huge, yet seemingly weightless, dome are the tombs of Vauban, Turenne, Foch, and others. The remains of Napoleon I, brought (1840) in great pomp from St. Helena, were transferred there on completion of the crypt in 1861.

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Journey to France and Spain, 1801
Book by Victor Marie Du Pont, Charles W. David; Kennikat Press, 1972
Subjects: France--Social Life And Customs--1789-1815, Spain--Description And Travel
...la Cuesta, Spain, 67 , 91 Hotel de Boston Paris , 22 Hotel des Etrangers Paris , 23 Hotel...Paris Paris , 25 , 42 Hotel des Sept Freres Macons 7 Brothers...France , 29 , 62 -63, 112 Invalides, Hotel des Paris , 58 Ionian Islands...
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Polonaise: The Life of Chopin
Book by Guy De Pourtalhs, Charles Bayly Jr.; Henry Holt, 1927
Subjects: Chopin, Frederic--1810-1849
...Inquisition, Palace of Barcelona , 160 Invalides, Hotel des Paris , 319 Invitation to a Waltz...dynasty of, 97 Janin, 329 Jardin des Plantes Paris , 257 Jarocki, Professor...battle of, 21 Jesuites, rue des Warsaw , 26 Journal Delacroix...
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The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV: Royal Service and Private Interest, 1661-1701
Book by Guy Rowlands; Cambridge University Press, 2002
Subjects: France--Armaee--History, France--History--Louis Xiv, 1643-1715
...relationships with commissaires des guerres, 88 91 relationships with...traditional historiography, 73 4 Invalides, Hotel des, 129 James II, king of England...General of the Extraordinaire des Guerres, 128 , 132 Jossigny, premier...
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The Significance of the Fine Arts
Book; Marshall Jones Company, 1923
Subjects: Architecture, Art
...vicissitudes of, 366 . Hospitals, modern, 217 . Hotel de Ville, Paris, 239 . Hotels, modern, 236 . Houdon, Jean Antoine, his Voltaire...Instrumental music, experiments in, 431 , 432 . Invalides, Hotel des, Paris, 170 .
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Letters of a Russian Traveler, 1789-1790: An Account of a Young Russian Gentleman's Tour through Germany, Switzerland, France, and England
Book by N. M. Karamzin; Columbia Universty Press, 1957
Subjects: Europe--Description And Travel--18th Century
...Samuel, 1st Viscount Hood, 302 , 304 - 305 Hotel des Invalides, 238 Hotel-Dieu hospital, Paris , 235 - 35...Literature, Acad emy of Paris , 216 , 221 -22, 227 Invalides, Hotel des, 238 Italian Theater Paris , 205 - 295 Ivangorod...
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Splendeurs et Miseres De L'architecture Des Rougon-Macquart
Journal article by Soundouss El Kettani; Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Vol. 38, 2010
Subjects: Architecture--Portrayals, Authors, French--Criticism and interpretation, Authors, French--Works, French writers--Criticism and interpretation, French writers--Works, Les Rougon-Macquart (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Zola, Emile--Criticism and interpretation, Zola, Emile--Works
...possede dorenavant son hotel, la figure de larchitecte...profile encore. Loeuvre des Rougon-Macquart...abattant les vieux hotels de la rue Louis...Vaudeville.--Au Bonheur des Dames 587-88 La...un couloir de leur hotel. (c 496) Les artistes...flaneurs par excellence des Rougon-Macquart...
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National and Colonial: the Musee Des Colonies at the Colonial Exposition, Paris, 1931
Journal article by Patricia A. Morton; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 80, 1998
Subjects: Architecture, Art history, Colonialism, Fairs & exhibitions, France, Laprade, Albert, Museums
...stage at the back of the Salle des Fetes for performances and speeches...Haille, a professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and master fresco...at a Parisian school, at the Hotel de Ville at Reims, and at the...program of frescoes for the Salle des Fetes illustrates the overall...
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Our Special Correspondent: Letter from France
Journal article by Geoffrey Wawro; Naval War College Review, Vol. 56, 2003
Subjects: Foreign policy, France, International relations-US, Terrorism, United States
...Foreign Ministry, a great sandstone hotel in which Frances own efforts at world...myself, I stopped in at the Institut des Relations Internationales et Strategiques...chic restaurant facing the Hotel des Invalides. (A friend of mine had declined...
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The Place de Nos Conquetes and the Unraveling of the Myth of Louis Xiv
Journal article by Rochelle Ziskin; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 76, 1994
Subjects: Area planning & development, Castles & palaces, History, Kings, Louis XIV, King of France (1638-1715), Paris France
...the rounded Place des Victoires has a...Vacquier, Les Vieux Hotels de Paris, IV...misidentifies it as the Hotel des Invalides (as in n. 13...image," Gazette des beaux-arts, C...The Crown sold the hotel in 1648, but repurchased...
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The Sultan's Authority: Delacroix, Painting, and Politics at the Salon of 1845
Journal article by Jennifer W. Olmsted; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 91, 2009
...Vernets The Due dOrleans Proceeds to the Hotel de Ville, 31 July 1830, exhibited at...had been ceremoniously deposited at the Hotel des Invalides (Fig. 10).70 Unlike...at IsIy were officially presented at the Hotel des Invalides.72 Shortly afterward...
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For Those Who 'faithfully Served'
Magazine article by David M. Gosoroski; VFW, Veterans of Foreign Wars Magazine, Vol. 84, December 1996
Subjects: Military history, Military weapons, Veterans benefits, War
...ensuring the plans demise. Louis XIIIs own Mason des Invalides made it from drawing board to construction in 1635...pension/institutional approach, establishing the Hotel des Invalides, which opened in 1675 to 4,000 pensioners. The...
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Home from the Wars: Stephen Brumwell Discusses Attitudes towards Veterans in Mid-Georgian Britain, and the Provisions Made for Them
Magazine article by Stephen Brumwell; History Today, Vol. 52, March 2002
Subjects: George III, King of England--Social policy, Social policy--Military aspects, Soldiers--Civil status, United Kingdom--History, Veterans--Social aspects
...these institutions took their inspiration from the Hotel des Invalides in Paris, which was founded to house soldiers wounded in the service of Louis XIV. But while the Invalides could shelter 3,000 veterans, and double that number...
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Keeping Alive the Memory of the Doughboy
Magazine article by Richard K. Kolb; VFW, Veterans of Foreign Wars Magazine, Vol. 95, August 2008
Subjects: Armed forces, Memorials & monuments, Military history, Motion pictures, Museums, Tunnels, War
...Not far from there is the Tulip hotel, with a small adjacent museum containing...and was killed." Take the Chemin des Dames ("The Ladies Path") to Froidmont...the Court of Honor of the hotel des Invalides-"sacred shrine of the French army...
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Power at Sea
Magazine article by Jim Bloom; Sea Classics, Vol. 42, July 2009
...improvement over the his first effort. However the Academie des Sciences prohibited him from using his invention in Paris...sur les Pompes a Feu. Impoverished, he retired to the Hotel des Invalides and died there of cholera before the French academy gave...
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The Revolutionary Event of Vatican II
Magazine article by Andrew M. Greeley; Commonweal, Vol. 125, September 11, 1998
Subjects: Catholic Church--Doctrines, Theology, Doctrinal--Analysis, Vatican Council, 1962-1965--Analysis
...Mobs ransacked the city. On the morning of July 14, representatives of this government and a mob went to the Hotel des Invalides to demand the arms that were stored there so that they could create a militia to defend the city against a possible...
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Ice Cold in Paris; Paris Is at Its Coolest in the Cold. the Lights Are Twinkling, the Martinis Are Chilling and the Shops Are Buzzing. Lydia Slater Takes Her Daughter and Sister on a Glamorous Girls' Weekend - but Who Ate All the Pastries?
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), January 6, 2006
Subjects: Hotels and motels, Restaurants
...niceness pill as the hotel waiters. It was...ride back to the hotel was nothing short...the Galerie des Gobelins, the hotels chandeliered...produced by the hotels pastry chef...watched over by a hotel babysitter, we...Divellec, near Les Invalides (00 33 1 45 51...and the Galerie des Gobelins for tea...
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Weekender: Travel: Setting the Seine; JILLY BEATTIE FALLS FOR PARIS IN THE SPRINGTIME Romance Is in the Air on Parisienne Walkways
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), June 4, 2005
...sights on the way to their hotel. And thats where EasyJet...a number of fabulous hotels in the city as part of...at the four star New Hotel Roblin on Place de Madeliene...Lisa. St-Germain-des-Pres: The oldest church...French capital. Les Invalides: The Hotel des Invalides was originally...
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No Gambolling Lambs This Spring but Can-Can Girls Can Really Frolic; the Time Comes When All Smallholders Have to Make Sacrifices - and It's Not Always Easy Down to Earth
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), March 3, 2009
...at the Moulin Rouge went down well, and he got his history fix when we called into the military hospital, the Hotel des Invalides and had a look at Napoleons tomb. Personally, Id have been happier looking at animals, but you cant have it all...
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Soldiers Still Marching, If Slowly
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 3, 2002
...being the purpose of the Royal Hospital when King Charles II founded it in 1682, after the model of Louis XIVs Hotel des Invalides in Paris. The ninth in-pensioner is Archibald Harrington of the Queens Royal Regiment and Royal Artillery. Commissioned...
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A Weekend Affair to Remember
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), November 3, 1996
...magic of Paris. STAYING THERE: Hotel Bourgogne et Montana, 3 rue de...night. Chez Francoise, Aerogare des Invalides - tel 47 05 49 03, fax 45 51 96...Brasserie Esplanade, Esplanade des Invalides. Lunch approximately pounds sterling50...
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Invalides, HÔtel Des
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
INVALIDES, HOTEL DES otel dazaNvaled , celebrated landmark of Paris, France, built...architecture, it now houses a military museum. It faces the vast Esplanade des Invalides. Behind it, in the court of honor, is the church and Dome des Invalides...
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Mansart, Jules Hardouin
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...he designed in Paris the Place des Victoires (1684 86) and the superb...1699). The impressive Dome des Invalides (1706) in Paris is considered...Bruant and brought the scheme of the Hotel des Invalides to completion. Much of Mansarts...
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Paris , City, France
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...stations. Elegant stores and hotels, lavish nightclubs...and Gardens, the Jardin des Plantes (site of the...Quai dOrsay , and the Hotel des Invalides , is the governmental...the celebrated Cafe des Deux Magots and Cafe de...
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Lafosse, Charles De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...A major achievement is his fresco of St. Louis Presenting His Sword to Christ (1700 1702) for the dome of the Hotel des Invalides, Paris. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission...


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