Free visit of the Paris Military School

Name: Free visit of the Paris Military School
Start: 2023-09-16T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T19:00:00+02:00
Location: École militaire

Founded in 1751 under Louis XV, the Military School (7th arrdt) saw Napoleon I, Queen Victoria, Napoleon III, General De Gaulle, John Paul II pass through its walls… A place full of history.

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

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 at the Mess Circle.

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.
More than 270 years after its creation, the Military School continues its mission: the higher military education of officers.
Discover the Salon des Maréchaux, the Saint-Louis Chapel, the Gabriel Rotunda.
Possibility of lunch on site at the Mess Circle.
Possibility to pre-register online for faster access to the entrance:

I am pre-registering for Saturday, September 16 (by clicking on the first registration link).
I am registering for Sunday, September 17 (by clicking on the dex registration link).

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