Aux grands hommes

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“Aux grands hommes la patrie reconnaissante”
Panthéon
Place du Panthéon
Quartier de la Sorbonne, 5th arrondissement
Paris, July 2002

“The Panthéon (from Ancient Greek πάνθειον (pántheion) ‘[temple] to all the gods’) is a monument in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France. It stands in the Latin Quarter (Quartier Latin), on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, in the centre of the Place du Panthéon, which was named after it. The edifice was built between 1758 and 1790, from designs by Jacques-Germain Soufflot, 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.” (Panthéon, Wikipedia)