Hotel des Invalides
Place
View on the mapInstitutional euphemism for the place where a sick bird is taken to be eased out of this world. Not the Paris monument, notwithstanding the grandeur of the title.
Appears in
- Pretty Poli chapters:
From the books (1 passage)
…When we took her to the hotel des invalides, the good people in that place saw fit to ease her passage from this world by the administration of certain … palliatives.”