The Church of the Invalides is one of the bigger cathedrals in Paris. Its gilded baroque-classicist dome, whose height reaches 100 meters, was built from 1679 to 1708. After the death of Louis XIV, the church became a royal mausoleum. In one of its chapels, the body of Napoleon Bonaparte, the general, commander, and emperor of the French Empire, who died on the island of St. Helena, was placed in 1840, then he rests in the sarcophagus under the dome since 1861.