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PANTHEON
Paris Monument

It is today the last house to famous Men of our History.

Louis XV has the church built consequently to a wish he had expressed in 1744 when he suffered from a serious illness.

It was formally Sainte-Geneviève church which Soufflot redesigned in the 18th century. It has been used since the French Revolution to hold the ashes of Great Men such as, Mirabeau, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Victor-Hugo, Emile Zola, Jean Moulin, Gaspard Monge, François Fénélon, Louis David, Jean- Jaurès, Louis Braille, Pierre and Marie Curie, André Malraux.

In 1806, Napoleon gave the Sanctuary back to the Church. It becomes Pantheon again from 1831 to 1852, then a worship place before being transformed into a public building in 1885.

Metro: Cluny La Sorbonne

Opening hours is: 9.30 a.m.to 6.30 a.m.

 

Paris Historical Monuments

Arc de Triomphe | Bastille Opéra | Conciergerie | Eiffel Tower | Hotel de Ville | Invalides | Louvre Museum
Madeleine | Montmartre Sacré-Coeur Basilica | Montparnasse Tower | Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral
Opéra Garnier | Orsay Museum | Panthéon | Sainte-Chapelle | Abbey of Saint-Denis | Trocadéro

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