What historical sights should I see in Paris?
I think not far from the Invalides is the Military Museum, which is well worth a visit. Napoleon was admitted here and, as far as I remember, there’s a section devoted to him and his Marshals with a lot of personal exhibits. I was fascinated. Unfortunately, Baron Haussmann cut up old Paris with his Boulevards, so you won’t see it just as it was in the 18th-early 19th centuries, but there are still places connected to those times. The Place de la Concorde is where Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were executed and, with a bit of imagination, you can filter out the modern and think how it might have looked! Try the Conciergerie also, where you can see Marie Antoinette’s prison. The Temple doesn’t exist any more, but the Carnavalet Museum in the Marais (a wonderful district well worth seeing for the hotels – homes of the aristocrats – and the Place des Vosges) has some really interesting exhibits from those times. One place I loved is the Expiatory Chapel. Walk north-east from the Madeleine
