Pantheon

If the Pantheon owes its reputation to the 77 illustrious figures who rest there, it is itself a true architectural masterpiece. On the Sainte-Geneviève mountain, in the heart of the Latin Quarter, the imposing Corinthian columns, the majestic triangular pediment and the 83-meter-high ovoid dome are the work of architect Jacques-Germain Soufflot and required nearly 26 years of work. , between 1764 and 1790. It is in the crypt that the personalities buried in the Pantheon rest. Voltaire was among the first - from 1791, with the Comte de Mirabeau -, soon followed by politicians, scholars, men of letters, soldiers and resistance fighters. Visiting the Pantheon, its entrance and its vaults, thus allows us to maintain the memory of famous deceased persons, such as Sadi Carnot, Victor Hugo, Louis Braille, Jean Moulin, Émile Zola or André Malraux. As for the women, they are, for the moment, only two: Sophie Berthelot, buried alongside her husband, and Marie Curie, Nobel Prize winner in physics and chemistry. The month of May 2015 will, however, see the burial of four resistance fighters, including Germaine Tillion and Geneviève de Gaulle. The Pantheon can be visited freely, during a guided tour or a guided tour. The latter, lasting 1 hour 30 minutes, revolves around a specific theme, such as the one offered every other Wednesday: "To the Great Men, the grateful homeland".

Superb building dedicated to the great characters of our history (recent)