Hôtel des Invalides is a complex of buildings with museums and monuments related to the military history of France. Its original purpose was a hospital and home for retired war veterans. The church known as the Dôme des Invalides holds the tombs of many of French war heroes, most notably Napoleon Bonaparte.
Napoleon died on May 5, 1821 in exile on Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean and was buried there. Almost twenty years later, his remains returned to France. Napoleon's final resting place is a massive red quartzite stone sarcophagus in the crypt of the Dôme des Invalides church in Paris.
