Hotel des Invalides, Paris, 2008 Napoleon has a
complex. His remains are protected by a whole compound of buildings called
Les Invalides. When I looked closer I saw his body guards.
Not only do they shield the windows,
And defend the windows,
They
are the windows!
The dome over Napoleon's tomb is gilded with more than half a million gold leaves,
or more than 20 pounds of gold!
His body is inside 6 different coffins (sort of like Russian nesting dolls)
and finally it was set inside this mahogany tomb.
Who doesn't need a nice place to rest after taking over the world?
(You can understand why he was probably poisoned in the end.)
4 comments:
Me thinks he overcompensated a little too much for something. Not sure what, but something.
Paranoia. Such an entertaining thing for the ones looking in.
I wish that we had seen that when we were there! The dome looks gorgeous.
Ok, my comment above could have been titled "The comment to nowhere". I actually had a pretty great thought inside my head, it just bonked on the presentation.
I meant to explain that it's fascinating to witness the great lengths that people who have a distorted grandiosity about themselves will go to to ensure their own protection and safety.
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