Friday, January 13, 2012

Les Invalides (a post better titled "Les Morts")

No words.

The museum there is dedicated to the history of warfare - from  the middle ages until the present. I think could have spent all day in the sections devoted to the history of the World Wars. Who knew? It was rather emotionally exhausting to even try to comprehend that all that passed during my grandparents' lifetime.

And Napoleon's tomb...

What a spectacle. What a man. Also, the fact that one of his horses is preserved in the museum... A little weird.

Also, today I visited the Panthéon and saw the tombs of Marie Curie, Rosseau, Voltaire, Dumas, and Victor Hugo... and a lot of other dead people.

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