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The Paris Pantheon (from Greek, it means "Every god") is a building in the Latin Quarter of Paris.
The inscription above the entrance reads AUX GRANDS HOMMES LA PATRIE RECONNAISSANTE. This is because during the early stages of the French Revolution, the National Constituent Assembly decided to convert the old church Abbey of St. Genevieve, already remodeled in 1790, it into a secular mausoleum for prominent Frenchmen.
An early example of neoclassicism, with a façade modeled on the Pantheon in Rome, surmounted by a dome that owes some of its character to Bramante's "Tempietto", the Pantheon looks out over all of Paris.
Among those buried in its necropolis are Voltaire, Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola, Jean Moulin, Marie Skłodowska-Curie, Louis Braille, Jean Jaurès and Soufflot, the architects of the Pantheon.
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