Military Museum

We decided that since we're visiting so many different places and leaving out a lot of details, me, Amelia, and Isabel are going to divide up the writing of what we do each day. For instance, Isabel's blogging about the sewer, Amelia's blogging about the sculptur museum, and I'm going to tell about the Military Museum and Napoleon's tomb. The outside of the museum is kind of midevil style. They have motes and canon's lined up around the perimeter. The motes just had grass at the bottom of them but in midevil times there was sewage and such to discourage the enemy from crossing into the castle. The museum's an old military academy so it's also military style. When we first walked in there was a big courtyard with canon's around the perimeter once again. The first thing we went to see was midevil armor. It was interesting looking at the designs and eyeholes and everything. Some of them had more architecture involved going into detail with a mustache, nose, ears, and other normal body parts engraved in the metals. They had tons of armor, two exhibits full and also an armory. It showed what the room was like where the knights would gear up for battle or prepare for a joust where two knights ride on horses at each other with long pointed spears trying to knock the other to the ground. It also showed the horse armor and I thought about how hot people and animals would get after wearing the bulkey suits for a long period of time. I wouldn't want to do it but it was considered a great honor to be a knight. It showed children's armor making you assume that they were probably taught to fight from a really young age. The next thing we planned on going to was the WWI and WWII exhibits which we were quite excited about given the fact that they had tons of different tanks. It was actually going to be the highlight of my trip but it was unfortunately closed. There were a couple of tanks sitting in front of the museum that we looked at and could tell that these were some of the oldest tanks to be used. One didn't even look like a tank but more like a big metal thing on wheels that you pushed and it would give you a certain amount of protection. I'm sure there's a real way to use it but I'm just guessing that's how by looking at it. I tried to lift it up but didn't feel it give at all. It might have been bolted to the ground but you'd probably have to be strong to lift it. The other tank was a little more modern probably used during WWI. It was actually a vehicle that you could drive and it actually looked intimidating. It had a big long gun in the front showing a technical advance from the other. The next exhibit we went to was Napoleon's tomb, obviously where Napoleon was buried. Napoleon was a military leader who lived during the French Revolution. He grew up in Corsica which is an island of the coast of France. He was somewhat a dictator but was one of the great military leader's of history kind of like Hitler but a lot older. I thought that it would make sense for him to be buried under the Arc de Triomphe because that's the memorial built in his honor but he was actual buried in the museum in a bit tomb shaped like a U on the top and kind of rectangular. It's in a huge room with the ceiling raised up really high and lots of good architecture and paintings. There are angel statues all the way around the tomb and a big seal under and around it. There's a giant cross at the back of the room with other stuff in the distant. He died when he was banished to an island after being charged for resistance against the enemy. The last word he was thought to have said was Josephine, his first wife.