The dome of Les Invalides, Paris
Constructed between 1671 and 1706, Les Invalides was commissioned by King Louis XIV as a home for aged and disabled soldiers. The dome is decorated with gold leaf.

In 1840, the remains of Napoleon Bonaparte were exhumed from the island of St Helena where he died in exile and taken back to Les Invalides. His grandiose tomb directly below the dome was completed in 1861.
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