The hotel houses about a hundred of retired and disabled belonging to French army nowadays, but there are also museums and a military necropolis there.
The administration instructed for such a mission is the National Disabled Institute.
The Disabled Institution, in the days of Louis XIV, helped the old disabled soldiers who were reduced to sheltering in monasteries and to begging.
In 1670 the Disabled Institution was therefore conceived to house a large number of injured soldiers. Its building was finished in 1676.