Pantheon, Paris
- Address: 602 Place du Pantheon
- Vicinity: E of Rue Saint-Jacques
- Arrondissement Municipal of 5th Lt, Pantheon in Paris
Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
1755/00/00 | Jacques-Germain Soufflot | Architect | Louis XV commissions Jacques-Germain Soufflot to design the Church of Sainte-Genevieve to replace an older church of the same name on the same site. | |||
1757/00/00 | Louis XV of France | Patron | Construction begins on the Church of Sainte-Genevieve. | |||
1791/04/04 | Honore Gabriel Riqueti | In Memoriam | Honore Gabriel Riqueti is buried in Sainte-Genevieve, Paris | |||
1794/11/25 | Honore Gabriel Riqueti | In Memoriam | Honore Gabriel Riqueti's body is disinterred from The Pantheon and moved to the churchyard of Sainte-Catherine, suburb of Saint-Marceau, Paris (now the 5th arrondissement) | |||
1830/00/00 | David d'Angers | Sculptor | David d'Angers is commissioned to create a new pediment for the Pantheon | |||
1851/03/31 | Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon III | Education | Leon Foucault demonstrates the rotation of the earth to Napoleon III with a 67-metre (220 ft) pendulum hung from the central dome of the Pantheon | |||
1851/07/11 | Voltaire | In Memoriam | National Assembly of France has Voltaire's remains tranfered to the Pantheon | |||
1885/06/01 | Victor Hugo | In Memoriam | Victor Hugo is buried at the Pantheon | Funeral of Victor Hugo | ||
1904/00/00 | A public subscription finances a bronze casting of a large version of "The Thinker" by Auguste Rodin. The City of Paris installs it as a public monument in front of the Pantheon. It will be moved in 1922. | The Thinker | ||||
1908/06/06 | Emile Zola | In Memoriam | Zola's ashes are transferred to the Pantheon. During the ceremony, Louis Gregori, a journalist, fires two shots at Dreyfus, slightly wounding him in the arm. The fanatic is acquitted September 11. | Dreyfus Affair | ||
1924/11/23 | Jean Jaures | In Memoriam | The mortal remains of Auguste Marie Joseph Jean Leon Jaures are transferred to the Pantheon, Paris. |
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