Musee de l'Armee, Paris (France)

In the prestigious setting of the Hôtel national des Invalides, it was created in 1905, the Musée de l'Armée. Results from the union l'Artillerie Museum (1796) and the historical museum of the Navy, created a hundred years later, following the Universal Exhibition. 

The museum in its 8000 m² (museum, two churches) about 500,000 cataloged objects. These data have become the Musee de l'Armee in the most important museum of military history of France and one of the first in the world.

 The permanent collections of the museum are divided into so-called collections "historic", corresponding to a circuit chronological presentation from antiquity to the end of the Second World War, full of objects from "themed" sets (emblems, paintings, decorations. ..). These thematic collections are presented or along the historic rooms or groups specifically dedicated spaces. 

Church Dome (plane of Jules Hardouin-Mansart), with its openwork lantern tower which culminates at 107 meters high, has a large fresco painted under the leadership of Charles de La Fosse. Its dome was regilded with gold in 1989, on the occasion of the bicentennial of the French Revolution and for the fifth time since its inception (12 kilos of gold were necessary for this renewal). 

Is a real military cemetery with its many tombs that house: the heart of Vauban, the remains of Turenne and the heart of la Tour d'Auvergne; as the Dome, hosts mainly the tomb of Napoleon Ier, the graves of his brothers Joseph and Jerome Bonaparte, his son the "roi de Rome" general (Bertrand and Duroc) and quarterbacks (Foch and Lyautey) .