Musée de l’Armée is going to be a pictures only post. It’s a wonderful museum which I couldn’t visit in its entirety because we arrived at the museum 2 hours before closing and I assume it takes about 3-4 hours to properly see everything. I shared the highlights, which include Napoleon’s tomb. I have to say that it was a bit uncomfortable to see an emperor who plunged Europe into wars celebrated like this.
I was also unimpressed by their exhibition on “resistance” and resistance in WW2, politically-biased which, naturally, ignores history. Also, the mentions of Jews is kept to the minimum, but the communists killed in the concentration camps are centre-stage.
I’ve not been to this museum and you’ve shared some interesting and beautiful photos.
I’m sure there are plenty of folks in this country who have similar thoughts when they visit various “presidential libraries”. I’ve never been to one (despite Clinton’s not being that far away), but I’m sure they only focus on what would be considered the positives from that president’s term (by that party’s standards).
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I think it might worth visiting the library just to see how they are presenting their achievements. I would visit that one or any other given the opportunity.
The exhibition on resistance showed a poor engagement with the history which happens if the people organising it are politically motivated. But the tomb of Napoleon was the creepiest thing there. It had a god/saint-like importance. I’m not sure if you can understand from the pictures. It was downstairs, in that round monument which allows people to see the tomb from above before going through a door downstairs, like a sort of mini-pilgrimage, to reach the tomb where nobody can actually get close to. I passed by the Queen’s tomb in Windsor and it is a regular tomb, nothing elaborate like this, despite her being the longest serving monarch. The difference is incredible.