On our way home from the tour of the sewers, we walked to Les Invalides. They don’t make military hospitals like they used to.
Les Invalides now houses a museum of the army, which is on my long list of things to see, which means that we’re unlikely to get around to it. However, they have an exhibit in the public areas about the French resistance.
The church of St. Louis des Invalides is also open to the public. I was somewhat surprised that I didn’t see a statue of Joan of Arc. She’s in a number of churches, and she seems like a natural for this one. It’s possible I just missed her.
The church is actually a cathedral (and is so called in one of the signs), the seat of the French dioceses of the armed forces.
Though primarily a museum now, Les Invalides is, according to Wikipedia, still home to about 100 aged soldiers.
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