The Historial Charles de Gaulle is a French museum located in the Hôtel national des Invalides in the 7th arrondissement of Paris.

[1] The absence of a place of Gaullian memory in the capital led the President of the Republic, Jacques Chirac, to launch on November 9, 2004, the project of a Historial in Les Invalides, in connection with the Army Museum.

The Historial is part of the modernization program of the Army Museum: ATHENA (Armes, Techniques, Histoire, Emblématique, Nation, Armée) from 2003 to 2009.

As for the realization, it is entrusted to the architects Alain Moatti and Henri Rivière[2] who were selected from several candidates for their proposal to combine contemporary architecture with that of the 17th century.

On February 22, 2008, the President of the Republic Nicolas Sarkozy inaugurated the Historial Charles de Gaulle, which officially opened its doors the next day.