The Pantheon as seen from the entrance to the Luxembourg Gardens.
Originally built as a church commissioned by Louis XV in 1744 in thanksgiving for his recovery from grave illness, it later became the Pantheon during the Revolution. Napoleon returned it to the Church in 1806, but it was again desecularized in 1885 and has been a civic building ever since. The Pantheon houses the tombs of many famous Frenchmen, such as: Mirabeau, Voltaire, Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Emile Zola and Jean Moulin - the Resistance leader of World War II.
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Originally built as a church commissioned by Louis XV in 1744 in thanksgiving for his recovery from grave illness, it later became the Pantheon during the Revolution. Napoleon returned it to the Church in 1806, but it was again desecularized in 1885 and has been a civic building ever since. The Pantheon houses the tombs of many famous Frenchmen, such as: Mirabeau, Voltaire, Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Emile Zola and Jean Moulin - the Resistance leader of World War II.
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