When Louis XIV founded Les Invalides in 1670, it was a hospital for wounded veterans and so a strict military institution housing up to 4,000 soldiers 🫡
Life followed quasi-monastic discipline with strict schedules and very clear rules 📝 One of the most humiliating punishments was called the “table of water drinkers”
Soldiers who broke the rules were deprived of wine (part of their daily ration) and forced to drink only water at a separate table in the refectory, visible to everyone 👀
A public punishment designed to maintain discipline inside Louis XIV’s military institution 🇫🇷
📍 Les Invalides , 129 Rue de Grenelle, 75007 Paris
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