Panthéon

Also known as Panthéon (Paris), Pantheon (Paris), Pantheon, Eglise Sainte-Geneviève, Eglise Sainte-Genevieve

The Panthéon (, ) is a monument in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France. It stands in the Latin Quarter (Quartier Latin), on the , in the centre of the , which was named after it. The edifice was built between 1758 and 1790, from designs by , at the behest of King Louis XV; the king intended it as a church dedicated to Saint Genevieve, Paris's patron saint, whose relics were to be housed in the church. Neither Soufflot nor Louis XV lived to see the church completed.

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The Panthéon is a large monument built in Paris between 1758 and 1790, originally designed as a church dedicated to Saint Genevieve, the city's patron saint, and commissioned by King Louis XV. It stands in the Latin Quarter and represents an important architectural achievement of 18th-century France, though neither the king nor the building's architect lived to see it finished.

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Building.name: Panthéon
Building.image: File:Pantheon of Paris 007.JPG
Building.building_type: Mausoleum
Building.architectural_style: Neoclassicism
Building.location: Place du PanthéonParis, France
Building.construction_start_date: 1758
Building.completion_date: 1790
Building.website: https://www.paris-pantheon.fr/en/
Building.architect: Jacques-Germain SoufflotJean-Baptiste Rondelet
Building.mapframe stroke width: 2

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Official website: www.paris-pantheon.fr
Image: Panthéon, Paris 25 March 2012.jpg
Height: 83

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Commons gallery: Panthéon de Paris
Commons category: Panthéon de Paris
native label: Panthéon
date of official opening: 1781-00-00
postal code: 75005
inception: 1758-00-00
ground level 360 degree view URL: 360stories.com/paris/story/pantheon-paris
Commons Institution page: Panthéon de Paris
visitors per year: 223220

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Contents

History
Site and earlier buildings
Construction
The Revolution – The "Temple of the Nation"
Temple to church and back to temple (1806–1830)
Under Louis Philippe I, the Second Republic and Napoleon III (1830–1871)
The Third Republic (1871–1939)
1945–present
Architecture and art
Dome
Façade, peristyle and entrance
Narthex and naves
Foucault pendulum
Interment in the crypt
People interred or commemorated
See also
References
Sources
External links

By the time the construction was finished, the French Revolution had started; the National Constituent Assembly voted in 1791 to transform the Church of Saint Genevieve into a mausoleum for the remains of distinguished French citizens, modelled on the Pantheon in Rome which had been used in this way since the 17th century. The first was , although his remains were removed from the building a few years later. The Panthéon was twice restored to church usage in the course of the 19th century—although Soufflot's remains were transferred inside it in 1829—until the French Third Republic finally decreed the building's exclusive use as a mausoleum in 1881. The placement of Victor Hugo's remains in the crypt in 1885 was its first entombment in over 50 years.