Since the seventeenth century, the National Institution of the Invalides in Paris has housed a hospital where twenty-five-year-old wounded veterans cross paths with survivors of the Second World War, Indochina, Algeria and, more recently, terrorist attacks. Commissioned by the Musée de l'Armée in 2017, Philippe de Poulpiquet spent a year immersed in the daily life of the Institution's medical wing, following the wounded, civilian attack victims, hospital staff and military authorities who inhabit this place of care, life and death, revealing the permanence of its historical and commemorative dimensions.