Sentence examples for invalidness from inspiring English sources

A magnificent funeral was held in Paris in December 1840, and Napoleon's body was conveyed through the Arc de Triomphe in the Place de l'Étoile to entombment under the dome of the Invalides.

In July 1789, already having taken the Invalides and the Bastille, the Revolutionary mob captured the Hôtel de Ville.

Preceding this appointment, de Cotte had designed or decorated several city and country mansions, including the Hôtel des Mousquetaires Noirs (1699), and had worked closely with Mansart on additions to the Hôtel des Invalides.

He returned to France in 1847, and, after the rise of his nephew Louis-Napoléon Louis-NapoléonII), he becase, successively, goverNapoleon IIInvalides, marshel of France, and president of the Senate.

Probably the best known of all ministries is the low-built, ornate Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Ministère des Affaires Étrangères), on the Quai d'Orsay between the Invalides Esplanade and the National Assembly.

He was buried near Napoleon under the dome of the Church of Saint-Louis, in the Invalides in Paris.

He said he did not understand why on earth he, or they, had been fighting.On March 17th he had his wish, or most of it: a state funeral for all the poilus at Les Invalides, and then a simple family burial.

Nicolas Sarkozy proposed a mass at Les Invalides.

His greatest work was the decoration of the cupola of the Church of Les Invalides in Paris (1705), while the "Sacrifice of Iphigenia" in the Salon de Diane of Versailles and the "Sunrise" in the Salon d'Apollon are his most important works in the style of Charles Le Brun.

Thought to be most reflective of his individual ability to combine classical and Baroque architectural design is the chapel of Les Invalides, Paris.

Mansart planned his design (which was never executed) around a central, domed space, which later inspired his grandnephew Jules Hardouin-Mansart in his design for the dome of the church of Les Invalides.