Les Invalides
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The Hôtel des Invalides, best known as the Les Invalides, is a hospital in Paris, France.
After the attempts of Henry IV and Cardinal Richelieu to set up a hospital for invalid soldiers failed, Louis XIV of France solved the problem by taxing France's abbeys, and laid the first stone on November 30, 1671. By 1676 it was occupied by 6,000 soldiers.[1]
In 1789, a procession of radicals gathered and headed for the Left Bank, where they seized some 40,000 muskets and the cannon from the armory at the cellars of the hospital.[1][2] Because of the lack of both gunpowder and ammunition, the revolutionaries made for the Bastille, which they then stormed and captured.[2]
During the French Revolution, medical procedures were overseen by high-ranking Templar Payen.[3] Assassin ally Dr. Claude Chemin worked at the hospital at the time[4] and informed the Parisian Brotherhood after they set up a secure means of communication with him.[5] The Assassins infiltrated the hospital and air assassinated Payen from inside the dome.[3]
In 1861, Napoleon Bonaparte was entombed beneath the building's dome. Today, Les Invalides' main function is as a museum, but it still serves as a retirement home and medical center for roughly 100 elderly or injured veterans.[1]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Assassin's Creed: Unity – Database: Les Invalides
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Assassin's Creed: Unity – Database: Storming of the Bastille
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Assassin's Creed: Unity companion app – Les Invalides: You'll Pay For This
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Unity companion app – Les Invalides: The Doctor is In
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Unity companion app – Les Invalides: Dead Drop