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VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Practical Information
Pl du Panthéon. Map 17 A1.
Tel 01 44 32 18 00. Open 10am–
6:30pm daily (Oct–Mar: to 6pm)
(last adm 45 min before closing).
Closed 1 Jan, 1 May, 25 Dec.
& ^ 8 ∑ pantheon.
monuments-nationaux.fr
Transport
q Jussieu, Cardinal-Lemoine,
Maubert-Mutualité. @ 84 to
Panthéon; 21, 27, 38, 82, 84, 85,
89 to Gare du Luxembourg. W
. Iron-Framed Dome Luxembourg h Pl E Rostand.
The tall dome, with its stone
cupolas and three layers of
shells, was inspired by St Paul’s
in London and the Dôme des
Invalides (see pp188–9).

Colonnade
The colonnade
encircling the dome is
both decorative and
part of an ingenious
supporting system.

Monument to Diderot
This is Alphonse Terroir’s
statue (1925) to the
political writer Denis Diderot.

The Panthéon’s Enshrined
The first of France’s great men to be entombed
here (though later removed on the orders of
Robespierre) was the popular orator Honoré
Mirabeau. Voltaire followed; his statue, in front of
his tomb, is by Jean-Antoine Houdon. Other
literary notables here include Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, Victor Hugo and Emile Zola. In the
1970s, the remains of the wartime Resistance
leader Jean Moulin were reburied here. Pierre and
. Crypt Marie Curie’s remains were transferred here in
Covering the entire area under the 1995, followed by Alexandre Dumas in 2002.
building, the crypt divides into galleries In 2015, four more Resistance fighters – two of
flanked by Doric columns. Many French them women – took their place in the Pantheon.
notables rest here.

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