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Sophia R.

Les Invalides: The Sun King's Veterans' Hospital That Became France's National Mausoleum

A king built it for his broken soldiers. A revolution armed itself in its cellars. An emperor's body lies beneath the dome.

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Les Invalides: The Sun King's Veterans' Hospital That Became France's National Mausoleum

France

Catacombs, D-Day beaches, and massacre villages frozen in time. France has been the stage for Europe's most decisive violence for over a thousand years.