Les Invalides is a huge building complex that today also contains several museums and monuments related to the military history of France: the Musée de l'Armée (the museum of the Army), the Musée des Plans Reliefs, a museum of three-dimensional military models of fortified cities, and the Musée d'Histoire Contemporaine.
The building complex has fifteen courtyards, the largest of which is the Court of Honor, always under the watchful eye of Napoleon.
The complex also includes the Chapel of Saint Louis des Invalides, which was the church for the soldiers, and the Eglise du Dôme, a separate private royal chapel later commissioned by Louis XIV, where he intended to be buried, and which now serves as the burial site for Napoleon, his son, his two brothers, and some of France's war heroes, such as Marechal Foch, beloved French military hero of the First World War, shown here.
Its tall, golden dome can be seen from many parts of Paris. The U.S. Capitol's current dome was inspired by the dome at Les Invalides.
