Who rests in the Hotel des Invalides, Paris?
Les Invalides of Napoleon's family, several military officers who served under him, and other French military heroes are also buried at Les Invalides: The bodies of the following are interred in the vaults of the Cathedral of Saint-Louis des Invalides (see images: 1, 2, 3, 4): The hearts of the following are interred in the vaults of Les Invalides while the rest of their bodies are interred elsewhere: Les Invalides Les Invalides (), formally the Hôtel national des Invalides (The National Residence of the Invalids), or also as Hôtel des Invalides, is a complex of buildings in the 7th arrondissement of Paris,
Pont des Invalides Pont des Invalides The Pont des Invalides is the lowest bridge traversing the Seine in Paris. The story of this bridge started in 1821, when engineer Claude Navier conceived a technologically revolutionary bridge that crossed the Seine in one single reach without any point of support in between. The proposed suspension bridge, the construction of which started in 1824, was meant to be erected opposite to the Hotel des Invalides on the site of the current Pont Alexandre III. Navier failed to leave a safety margin on top of his calculations, and the contract to build the bridge was unusually