Musée de l’Armée at the Invalides: 8 stops, ending at Napoleon’s tomb
The 8 stops of the Musée de l’Armée at the Invalides: the lion armour, Ingres’s Napoleon, the Marne taxi, the Enigma machine and Napoleon’s tomb in the Dôme.
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