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We started our Attractions Paris tour at the Place Vauban in the seventh Arrondissement, which is a square positioned adjacent to Les Invalides, the place you'll enjoy a terrific view to the Eglise du Dome, an decorative and impressive gilded church where Napolean Bonaparte is buried. You’ll probably have the opportunity to pay a visit to the impressive mausoleum as part of a museum experience at the Musee de l’Armee.  
  
Les Invalides was commissioned by King Louis XIV and created in the 1600s to supply housing and hospital for injured military personnel and conflict veterans who were not capable of go to war. It is an enormous complex that in addition homes 3 Paris museums, although you’ll probably tour sections of this construction totally without expense. So when you head to the north face you will be able to see the large and primary facade in a classical style of design, and in front of the complex you can see several cannons, that are apparently solely fired when there's a new French president elected.  
  
Going inside via this major north facade entrance you see various items including several more cannons and as you enter the Cour d’Honneur, which is the main courtyard of the building, on the higher stage there is a statue of Napoleon Bonaparte watching over the Courtyard of Honour. As we quickly spoke about before this, you could get to see the Tomb of Napoleon along with a lot of different funerary monuments, and one statue, as an illustration, is of Napoleon in his coronation costume, and that is all a part of the Musee de l’Armee, which is one of the largest and essentially the most important military museum on the planet.  
  
We carried on walking around the Hotel des Invalides and went upstairs and looked at many more cannons and artillery that were on show within the corridors. Afterwards, walking via the gardens, noticed a statue of Mansart who was one of the main architects for Les Invalides and specific parts including the Eglise du Dome.  
  
The Musee Rodin centered on the sculptor Auguste Rodin,is literally at the side of Les Invalides and housed inside a mansion house you could see several of his most esteemed and famous sculptures like The Thinker and there are also gardens that has varied works in it as well. Another sculpture called The Kiss was an immediate success, with the French state commissioning a marble version that is now held within the Musee Rodin. Although the original bronze forged version by him is what we discovered that is displayed inside the Tuileries Gardens, yet that is for one more time when we talk about the Jardin des Tuileries gardens.  
  
Going on, walking through the Esplanade des Invalides, which is the main stretch from Les Invalides, this leads you down to the River Seine and essentially the most awe inspiring and glorious bridge in Paris, the Pont Alexandre III. The bridge was in fact constructed for the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris and it has art nouveau style lamps all along its parapets plus the gilding on it, is simply super, not overlooking the 4 golden statues, one on each corner of the bridge on top of columns that have been designed to be counterweights. Many individuals use this bridge as a focus point for marriage ceremony photographs, and so forth. It is just a kind of world recognised Paris places of interest that you shouldn't miss out on seeing it.  
  
From right here now on the alternative bank of the River Seine within the eighth Arrondissement we found the Cour la Reine and a monument to Lafayette before admiring the Grand Palais with its ornate and visually fantastic domed glass roof and the quadriga statues on its corners. This building was also constructed at the same time as the Pont Alexandre III bridge, as was the Petit Palais over the road, yet we'll get to that in a minute. The Grand Palais was designed to be used for exhibitions, and still has the identical function at this time, although there are major works being carried out for a couple of years, so a brief Ephemere Grand Palais has been built to continue playing host to exhibitions and cultural occasions.  
  
At the back of the construction there is the Palais de la Decouverte science museum, which has also temporarily moved places. However, to the side there is an exquisite garden with a fish pond and varied historical monuments including one devoted to the explorer who founded New France, and hence the title of this garden is referred to as the Jardin de la Nouvelle France.  
  
Across the street from the Grand Palais you will note the Petit Palais that's not so large as the Grand Palais however constructed at the same time for the 1900 World Fair in Paris. Housing a fine arts museum named the Musee des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, which is totally free from any charges to enter the permanent collection, by way of the visually impressive gilded principal entrance. You probably could see statues, sculptures, etchings, paintings, artefacts, and much more. Additionally, while here, why not take the time to experience the Jardin Petit Palais cafe the place you probably could sit on the terrace and get pleasure from the surroundings? We were with the weather, yet when it will not be so nice, there is an inside cafe area to experience a Parisian breakfast, lunch, pasta or tarts plus a tea time menu that we enjoyed with pastries by the celebrated Le Notre Patisserie.  
  
Moving on from here after leaving the museum we found some monuments that included statues of Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle who were both instrumental in World War II. This was prior to heading to the Champs Elysees Gardens to take a meander through while seeing a variety of features like fountains, a Wallace drinking water fountain, a theatre and more before going back to our accommodation and changing into evening outfits for dining at considered one of the authentic gastronomic restaurants in Paris.