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The
home
for
the
disabled
was
designed
by
architect
Bruan
during
the
reign
of
King
Louis
XIV
as
a
shelter
and
hospital
for
the
elderly
and
disabled.
The
building
was
originally
designed
to
accommodate
1,500
guests,
but
by
1714
more
than
4,000
former
soldiers
and
officers
lived
there.
Among
them
were
doctors,
cooks,
priests
and
employees.
The
right
to
live
in
a
Paris
home
for
the
disabled
was
granted
to
veterans
who
had
served
in
the
army
for
10
years
and
had
served
at
least
20
years
out
of
1710.
Exceptions
have
been
made
for
the
seriously
injured
and
sick.
Women
were
not
allowed
to
visit
the
home
of
the
disabled,
their
daily
affairs
and
military-monastic
order.
During
the
nineteenth
century,
the
number
of
veterans
living
in
it
decreased
and
the
complex
became
of
historical
and
museum
importance.
Currently,
about
100
French
veterans
live
in
homes
for
the
disabled.
The
dimensions
of
the
completely
architectural
complex
are
400
by
450
meters.
The
former
royal
court
and
now
an
honor
are
surrounded
on
four
sides
by
four-story
houses
with
galleries.
There
are
French
rifles
and
trophies
along
the
courtyard
as
well
as
in
the
first
floor
gallery.
There
are
several
military
museums,
the
Army
Museum,
the
Freedom
Order
Museum,
the
Museum
of
Maps,
the
Museum
of
Modern
History,
the
Museum
of
the
French
Resistance,
and
the
Charles
de
Gaulle
Multimedia
History
Museum.
The
107-meter-high
Cathedral
of
the
Disabled
(San
Louis
de
Invalide)
combines
classical
austerity
and
Baroque
splendor,
and
is
architecturally
shaped
like
a
Greek
cross
inscribed
in
a
square.
The
first
chapel
is
to
the
right
of
the
tomb
of
Napoleon's
brother
Joseph
Bonaparte,
followed
by
Marshal
Fuchs
and
Wauban.
In
the
first
chapel
to
the
left
of
the
tomb
of
another
Napoleon-Jerome
brother,
behind
it
are
the
tombs
of
Marshall
Thorne
and
Lat.
In
the
crypt
of
the
cathedral,
built
by
the
architect
Visconti,
just
below
the
dome,
is
the
tomb
of
Napoleon.
Designed
by
architect
Louis
Visconti
(1791-1852)
and
built
from
1843
to
1853.
Napoleon
died
on
the
island
of
Saint
Helena
on
May
5,
1821,
and
in
1840
his
body
was
transported
from
the
island
to
Paris.
The
official
burial
of
the
remains
of
the
emperor
took
place
on
December
15,
1840.
Napoleon's
ashes
were
made
in
six
arrangements:
first
tin,
second
mahogany,
third
and
fourth
lead,
fifth
ebony
and
sixth
oak.
The
coffins
were
placed
in
a
large
red
porphyry
larynx
installed
in
the
crypt
of
the
Cathedral
of
the
Home
for
the
Disabled.
Marcophagus
reaches
4
meters
in
length
and
is
an
important
and
heavy
structure.
Around
the
arch
with
its
back
to
the
wall,
the
12
white
stone
goddesses
of
victory
with
their
lower
arms
and
folded
wings
represent
her
"twelve
victories":
Marango,
Wagram,
Osterlitz,
Jena,
Friedland,
Moscow.
The
names
of
the
battlefields,
set
in
gold
on
a
marble
mosaic
floor
around
Napoleon's
larynx,
are
surrounded
by
a
mosaic
Lauren
wreath.
The
ashes
of
his
son
Orlenko,
who
died
in
Vienna
in
1832,
rest
with
the
emperor.
There
is
also
an
unmarked
tombstone
in
the
home
for
the
disabled,
under
which
the
emperor
lies
on
the
island
of
St.
Helena.
From
the
gallery
leading
to
the
courtyard
is
an
honor
that
is
surrounded
on
all
four
sides
by
the
buildings
of
the
home
for
the
disabled.
For
19
years,
the
tomb
was
anonymous
and
a
guard
waited
nearby.
The
British
government
agreed
that
the
French
emperor
"returned
to
Paris"
only
in
1840.
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