France - Paris Again Day 2 - Musee De L'Armee Armor

 The museum is very very large and a "it should take us two hours max" promise turned into a four hour "we need to come back someday". So i've paired down heavily the pictures but uploaded tham at 10 megapixels each, so if you want to see detail, click on one.

 This armor was worn by King Francois the first and is known as his lion armor (1540-1545).

 Also worn by King Francois the first (1539-1540)

Worn by the future Henri the second (1540)

 The armor of Mars and the Victory (1565-1570)

 

 The back of it.

 Gifts of armor and weapons were made to the royalty of France and these are some of them. Japenese Samurai armor (1580-1590).

 Italian shields from 1550-1560.

 Northern "Savoyard" Italian helmets from 1620.

 Jousting armor for the joust of peace in 1510, gifted by Maximilian the first of Austria.

There is a lot of armor in storage as well.