Tomb of Napoléon

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This is the tomb of Napoléon Bonaparte, under the Dôme des Invalides. Napoléon is in the big red sarcophagus; it is big because it contains six other coffins, one inside the other. The standard joke is that this was done to keep Napoléon from getting back out.

It was really dark in this rotunda so I had to try a long handheld exposure (tripods being verboten, as usual).

The tomb and the chapel that surrounds it are quite beautiful and worth a visit.

Photographed on September 2, 1999.