The Parisian Ecole Militaire belongs to the most famous military schools in the world. It is located by the Martian Field and occupies a monumental, Baroque building with a column portico and a dome above the entrance.
The school was established in 1750 by Louis XV. She was to educate cadets and officer corps of the French army. In 1784, in just a year, graduated from Napoleon Bonaparte. The Field of Mars adjacent to the school was a place of military exercises and army parades. It was used for this purpose at the beginning of the 20th century.
The Officers' School building complex was designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel. They are set in a quadrangle and are centered around several courtyards. The main building has an entrance directed to Field of Mars. They are multi-storey buildings on the plan of elongated rectangles covered with sloping roofs with bay windows. The entrance is surrounded by a column portico crowned with a tympanum, on which there is a bas-relief with military attributes.
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