This article comes from Figaro Magazine
Les Invalides is indeed a complex place.
Its golden dome visible from many points in Paris cannot sum it up.
It is a stratified place, where French political powers maintain a singular dialogue, visible to the naked eye for those who know how to look.
This place which Chateaubriand described as a
“military cloister”
and which the governor of Les Invalides, General Christophe de Saint-Chamas, pleasantly described as a mixture
of “a monastery and a boarding school”,
has become in a few centuries, with an indisputable acceleration in recent years. decades, a hybrid institution comprising a medical establishment, three museums, a necropolis, a cathedral, the offices of two governors (that of the Invalides and that of the military governor of Paris), the general secretariat of Defense and Security national park, a freely accessible restaurant, a library, etc.
Impressive dimensions
This multiple place, with various accesses, and whose geometric plan…
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