Institution des Invalides de la Legion Etrangere () is one of various detachments reserved exclusively for personnel having served in the Foreign Legion and for the most part, is also serviced by veteran legionnaires. The detachment's main activity is focused on housing and caring for over a hundred veteran legionnaires, which include wounded legionnaires, retired legionnaires and the elder legionnaires. Amongst the detachment's various functions, the primary mission revolves around being exclusively dedicated, specially to comfort the senior wounded veterans of the Legion which are housed in this institution. The domain is 240 hectares situated on the slope of the Montagne Sainte-Victoire in the south of France on the commune of Puyloubier. The institute is dependent on the Foyer d'entreaide de la étrangère, a public administration established in 2014. Institution des Invalides de la Legion Etrangere History of the institution Since the beginning, the Commandement de la Légion étrangère has always been preoccupied by the sort of difficulties facing wounded veterans legionnaires and the sick, including those that also retired, whom had to leave their adopted nation, this Legion which they have given everything through their heroism and sacrifices. Accordingly, building for them a home which belonged to them and where they would grow old and continue to live, in Honneur et Fidélité was a pillar duty. History of the domain This vast domain is first a Gallo-Roman villa, as attested by the aqueduct which supplies water from the mountain of Sainte-Victoire, whose natural mainstream is still visible. It is also a bastide of the 10th and 12th century whose entourage still serve the castle, which was reconstructed in the 19th century. As soon as they returned, the legionnaires started the general works around the domain to restore, build and plant the natural surrounding. Installations had to be amended in order to create a vast center of adaptation revolving around military fraternity. All legionnaires present at the time, even those that came back wounded from far distant campaigns, activated themselves to put this domain together. These heroes, "in a forced resting phase", built their domain and the functionality of the current detachment. The legion at this time époque and according to Chef de bataillon (Commandant -Major) Le Roch, the first Director of the I.I.L.E: "It is first about combat, then work, and at the end, it's about fraternity and camaraderie". The domain houses a dozen hectares of Vineyard which has