History of the Pantheon of Paris

The Pantheon is a building in the Latin Quarter in Paris. It was originally built as a church to house the reliquary of Saint Genevieve, but after many changes, it is now a secular mausoleum housing the ashes of prominent French citizens.

Built in the 18th century by Jacques-Germain Soufflot, the Pantheon is a neoclassical style monument, with a facade similar to the Pantheon in Rome. There are more than 70 notable figures buried in the Pantheon of Paris, including: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire, Marie Curie, Jacques-Germain Soufflot, Jean Moulin, André Malraux, Jean Monnet, Pierre Curie, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Emile Zola, Jean Jaurès. Germaine Tillion, Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz, Jean Zay, and Pierre Brossolette are the last four to enter in 2015.

Inside the Pantheon, you will discover paintings illustrating the history of Saint Genevieve as well as the epic of the Christian and monarchical origins of France. Since 1995, a reconstruction of the experience of the Foucault pendulum decorates the center of the nave of the Pantheon.

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