Dôme de l'Hôtel des Invalides

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The history of this building began in 1670, when King Louis XIV of France decreed the beginning of the construction of State Les Invalides (L'hotel national des Invalides). The purpose of such a large project was simple. At that time, after numerous wars, there were a lot of old, crippled and just poor health of former soldiers, which even to the same for the most part were poor. All this mass of people who are engaged in begging, stealing someone on the streets of Paris. Therefore, it was decided to collect and place them in one place, on the outskirts of Paris. But other than that, the creation of the Invalides increased the prestige of the army for the ordinary soldiers in their eyes. After all, it was a no, and the guarantee of a comfortable starosti.Pervaya part of a complex of five yards, designed by the court architect of liberals Bryuanom, was built from March 1671 to February 1677, but since 1674 the colonization of the first pensioners.