Pantheon

The Pantheon was originally a church built by Louis XV between at the end of the 18-th century. It is a very impressive building. Not long after it came into being, it was secularized by the French Revolution. Napoleon made it a religious building again, and it was secularized once more in 1885. It is now most famous for its collection of tombs of great French thinkers : Rousseau, Voltaire, Hugo, Zola and Malraux. But also of scientists Pierre and Marie Curie. It was also the place where Foucault did his famous experiment with the pendulum.