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This building, commissioned by Louis XV in 1744, was designed as a church in honor of St. Genevieve, patroness of the city.
During the revolution became a vault to house the tombs of the "great men of the fatherland," as can be read in its frontispiece which is inspired by the Pantheon of Agrippa (Rome).
Taking advantage of its great height from the top was used by Léon Foucault in 1851 to install his famous pendulum to prove that the rotation of the earth and the existence of the Coriolis force.
Among those buried in the Pantheon can deploy Voltaire, Victor Hugo and Pierre and Marie Curie.
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