Why Is Napoleon Buried at Les Invalides? Episode 135
Join Us in France Travel Podcast
Annie Sargent
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2017
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
As you probably know, Napoléon Bonaparte’s importance in French history and life is difficult to over-estimate. Yet, surprisingly, we haven’t talked about Napoleon much on Join Us in France besides in Episode 58, titled Napoleon in Paris. This has everything to do with the fact that, well, it’s a complicated subject, and it is impossible to do it justice without going on and on and on about it and be a little bit more scholarly than ideal for my taste. BUT, Napoleon has left his mark in almost every aspect of French culture and history, so we can’t ignore him. So, let’s start the year 2017 gently by dipping our toes gently into the Napoleon soup and ask a simple question: Why is Napoleon buried at the Invalides?
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| 0:00.0 | On today's join us in France, why is Napoleon buried at Lissen Valides? the way. This is Journe's in France episode 135. |
| 0:36.2 | This is Joining us in France episode 135. |
| 0:39.3 | Bonjou, I'm Annie, and today I'm doing a solo episode because I just got really curious about why Napoleon was buried at Liza Valid and not in some other place in Paris because, well, I'll get into that in a minute. |
| 0:58.4 | There would have been really good reasons to not bury him there, and yet there he is. |
| 1:04.0 | Before I start talking about Napoleon and Lizan Valides today, |
| 1:08.0 | I want to say thank you very much to new Patreon donors |
| 1:12.0 | Mitch Guzman and Dorothy Kangas. |
| 1:16.0 | Lunch break French, the exclusive content patrons get each month is going to come out this week. |
| 1:21.6 | A few days late, I apologize about that, but the holidays have been wonderful, haven't they? |
| 1:27.0 | This month is going to be all about the French words that are commonly used in English, |
| 1:32.0 | and how to say them them if you would like to actually |
| 1:35.4 | say them correctly in French. I've come to find out sometimes it's not the right time to |
| 1:41.7 | say them correctly in French even if if you know how, but it's good to know how, right? |
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| 1:52.0 | Patreon.com, forward slash join us and Patreon is spelled P-A-T-R-E-O-N. |
| 2:01.0 | Many thanks to the supporters who started donating several months back. I cannot name all of you each episode, but I know who you are and thank you. I hope you feel good about doing that. You should feel good about doing that. I hope you do. |
| 2:14.8 | Today I also want to thank the people who have written iTunes Review recently. |
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