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17 and 18 September 2022Passed
Conditions
Access on presentation of a piece of ID from the age of 16 (ID card, passport or new driver’s license). Free or guided tours (registration on site). Possibility of lunch on site.
September 2022
Saturday 17
11:30 - 14:30
Sunday 18
11:30 - 14:30

École militaire

1 place Joffre 75007 Paris
  • Paris
  • Île-de-France

Come for lunch at the Paris Military School

Take advantage of the Heritage Days at the Military School to visit this historic monument created in 1751 and have lunch on site at the Mess Circle and in its green setting.
17 and 18 September 2022Passed
Conditions
Access on presentation of a piece of ID from the age of 16 (ID card, passport or new driver’s license). Free or guided tours (registration on site). Possibility of lunch on site.
© GSBdD IDF/Pôle PEM

The Military School is located in the heart of Paris at one of the ends of the Champ de Mars (7th arrdt), facing the Eiffel Tower.
Founded in 1751 under the reign of Louis XV, it saw Napoleon I, who was also a student there, Queen Victoria, Napoleon III, General De Gaulle and Pope John Paul II. It was declared a historic monument in 1990.
You can have lunch on site thanks to the catering offer offered by the Cercle mess and in the enclosed garden Lecrecler-Almandet. Access to the self from 11h30 to 14h30
Adult menu: 14 € (excluding wine)
Children’s menu: 10 €
Click on this link to

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Opportunity to pre-register online for faster access to the Military School entrance:

  • I am pre-registering for Saturday, September 17 (by clicking on the first registration link).
  • I am registering for Sunday, September 18 (by clicking on the dex registration link).
Types d'événement
Circuit
Thème 2022
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Gratuit

About the location

École militaire
1 place Joffre 75007 Paris
  • Paris
  • Île-de-France
Louis XV, at the instigation of the Paris brothers and Madame de Pompadour, set his sights on the plain of Grenelle, a former Garenne, which was part of the Sainte-Geneviève abbey and part of the Hôtel des Invalides in order to create a military school. Ange-Jacques Gabriel was chosen to design and ensure the construction of the buildings. In 1773, the work was completed. The royal courtyard is framed by porticoes with Doric columns on the ground floor and Ionic upstairs. The central body or castle dominates it without ostentation, decorated with colossal Corinthian columns and surmounted by a quadrangular dome. In 1780, the architect Gabriel being 82 years old, the architect Boullée, then the architect Théodore Brongniart who completes the work and finishes in particular the side pavilions of the castle. In 1787, the school was definitively closed. Its premises were assigned to the Hôtel-Dieu. The Revolution first established a flour depot and hand mills there, and in August 1792 the
Tags
Édifice militaire, enceinte urbaine, Édifice scolaire et éducatif
Access
Metro line 8 Military academy / Bus(Drunk) 82, 92, 80, 28, 87.