Statue of Voltaire

Steps down to the Crypt

Street art by Pierre Alechinsky

The Corinthian columns were the result of a fad with all things Roman and Greek in the mid-18th century

The Crypt

The Panthéon getting ready for its €100m, ten-year restoration

The Panthéon was converted from a church to a mausoleum after the Franco-Prussian War

The Panthéon was orginally a church dedicated to St. Genevieve

Tomb of Jean Jaures

Tomb of Jean Lannes, 1st Duke of Montebello

Tomb of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Tomb of Louis Antoine de Bouganville

Tomb of Louis Braille

Tomb of Rousseau

Tomb of Voltaire