Musée de l'Armée at Les Invalides

Mr X and I have visited many military museums in Europe and for some reason during previous trips to Paris we never made it to the Musée de l'Armée so this time we made sure we toured this place. It's quite large - it holds around 500,000 artifacts, including weapons, armour, artillery, uniforms, emblems and paintings which are are organized into historical collections, representing a chronological tour from ancient times through the end of World War II. As we toured, however, it became clear that the French have a very different opinion about how WWII played out - it seems they really had everything under control and they were going to be able to miraculously take back their own country (which fell in 40 days to the Germans) pretty much on their own. The Americans and the British just helped a little bit. The French Canadians did a bang up job with the French resistance though.

The Tomb of Napoleon Bonaparte is also found here so we visited that as well.

De La Fosse's Allegories Dome under which Napoleon's tomb lays.

The acutal tomb.

NOTE: If you're getting sick of Paris photos, no worries, this is the last post from our trip. Now onto other adventures.