little man .... big tomb

Love him or hate him (he brought a lot of misery across the whole of Europe c/- his megalomania) Napoleon was sure given a grand tomb. It is set at the rear of Les Invalides, the home of the French Army in the 7th Arrondissement of Paris, inside the late 17th century French Baroque style, dome topped, chapel building.

His ashes were brought back from St Helena in 1840 by King Louis-Phillippe and finally put in place in the red quartzite and green granite sarcophagus in 1861.

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les invalides and the cour d'honneur
the main building commenced in 1670 and completed in 1676
the domed chapel was completed in 1708

beautiful, extravagant French Baroque chapel by Liberal Bruant
based strongly on Romanesque architecture and St Peter's in Rome
using twisted column "canopy" over the altar

Napoleon's equally extravagant sarcophagus

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