What is "invalide"

Usage examples of "invalide".

Duc de Choiseul would be at the Invalides the next day, and that I should speak to him at once, and take a letter he would write for me.

Mathieu was very partial to the avenues, planted with fine trees, which radiate from the Champ de Mars and the Esplanade des Invalides, supplying great gaps for air and sunlight.

Owing to the Palace of the Constituent Assembly having been nearly seized by a crowd of insurgents on the 22d of June, 1848, and there being no barracks in the neighborhood, General Cavaignac had constructed at three hundred paces from the Legislative Palace, on the grass plots of the Invalides, several rows of long huts, under which the grass was hidden.

What had been the city's heart was one vast pyre, and the pillars of smoke made a beacon for the Versaillais troops to aim at, as they advanced now on both sides of the Seine, that day pushing as far as the Arc de Triomphe on the Right Bank, the Invalides on the Left.

Sunday continued to point out to Edge the various sights and landmarks she recognized from her geography and history books or from Rouleau's descriptions—the high spire and towers of Notre-Dame in mid-river, on the Left Bank the even higher steeple-topped dome of the Pantheon and, beyond that, highest of all the edifices in Paris, the cupolaed dome of the Invalides.

These gratings therefore inexorably turned upon their hinges the instant the sun disappeared behind the dome of the Invalides.

In one of the little streets in the neighbourhood of the Boulevard des Invalides, he saw a man dressed like a Tabourer, wearing a cap with a long visor, from beneath which escaped a few locks of very white hair.