Pantheon Paris
LocationFrance (Paris)
Built1791
Size83 m tall
Built ByFrance
About Pantheon Paris
Converted from church to mausoleum during the Revolution. Houses Voltaire, Rousseau, Hugo, and Marie Curie. Foucaults pendulum demonstrated here in 1851.
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