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Chris_Shipp1 Jan 27th, 2012 10:08 PM

place des invalides
 
Can anyone tell me something about place des invalides all I can find is on Hotel des Invalides.

Carlux Jan 27th, 2012 10:53 PM

What do you want to know? Wikipedia tells you about 'Les Invalides', a complex including Napoleon's tomb.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Invalides

Here is a panoramic view of the Place
http://www.panoramicearth.com/1477/P...es%20Invalides

Note that the 'Hotel des Invalides' is not a hotel in the English sense of the term - you don't stay there.

zeppole Jan 28th, 2012 01:52 AM

It is a huge traffic roundabout.

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Christina Jan 28th, 2012 05:30 AM

Maybe you don't know what the word "place" means in French, it is just a street term, similar to plaza in Spanish or square in English. It's just a area of land more than the usual intersection of two streets. That one is empty as far as I recall and is just for traffic (unlike some that have things on them like place de la Concorde).

zeppole Jan 28th, 2012 07:20 AM

But Christina, even if you know what the word means, there is an enormous difference between Place des Vosges and Place des Invalides. Can you dsecribe the difference? The fact that they are both called "place" tells you nothing about the reality of each place.

Southam Jan 28th, 2012 05:09 PM

In case the original poster is getting lost in translation, Les Invalides is the site of the sprawling national military museum, plus the Dome where Napoleon's remains are enshrined, as well as other military-related functions. It is set in a park with traffic whizzing around the edges.
Quite a place.

StCirq Jan 28th, 2012 08:08 PM

But even if you don't know what the word means, and I agree that knowing what the word means doesn't tell you much about what the place looks like, you can easily google it and get all kinds of descriptions and images for it.


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