
Vauban in the Invalides
Near Napoléon’s tomb in the Dôme des Invalides, in one of the side niches, is a monument to another remarkable man, Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633-1707), a French military engineer and adviser to King Louis XIV. Unlike most military officers in the seventeenth century, Vauban did not belong to Read More …