Description
The pantheon
The history of the site
In 1744, Louis XV decided to rebuild the Sainte-Geneviève church at the top of the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève in Paris. The king entrusted this project to the architect Jacques Germain Soufflot. The first stone was laid in 1764.
The building was completed in 1790. On Mirabeau's death in April 1791, the Constituent Assembly decided to use this monument as a necropolis for the "great men" who had contributed to the greatness of France.
Mirabeau was the first person buried in the Pantheon. Voltaire and Rousseau would follow. Subsequently, the building twice returned to its original purpose (as the Church of Sainte-Geneviève), but it became a secular temple again after the death of Victor Hugo in 1885. It was then definitively transformed into a republican monument.
The Pprogram of your visit
Free visit of the monument
