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France, Ile de France, Paris, Dome des Invalides, Tomb of Napoleon erected at Les Invalides in Paris to keep the remains of Napoleon following their repatriation to France from Saint Helena in 1840 on the initiative of King Louis Philippe I and his minister Adolphe Thiers, while the tomb's planning started in 1840 it was only completed two decades later and inaugurated by Emperor Napoleon III on 2nd April 1861.