The Panthéon (Latin: pantheon, from Greek πάνθειον (ἱερόν) '(temple) to all the gods'[1]) is a building in the Latin Quarter in Paris. It was originally built as a church dedicated to St. Genevieve and to house the reliquary châsse containing her relics but, after many changes, now functions as a secular mausoleum containing the remains of distinguished French citizens. It is 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". Located in the 5th arrondissement on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, the Panthéon looks out over all of Paris. Designer Jacques-Germain Soufflot had the intention of combining the lightness and brightness of the Gothic cathedral with classical principles, but its role as a mausoleum required the great Gothic windows to be blocked.
5 things...
- pillars-piliers
- fountain-Fontaine
- temple-temple
- Corinthian columns-colonnes corinthiennes
- Crypt-Crypte
FOOD!
la fondue
la tarte Tatin
What do I hear?
historian talking-parler historien
Qu'est-ce que tu as fait?
A Pantheon, je me suis assis sur les marches
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