 Pantheon - Reviews from across the web
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Pantheon - Paris - Reviews of Pantheon - TripAdvisor
I didn't even hear much about this place but we decided to go visit since it was part of the museum pass. We almost did not go but glad we did. This place is amazing. It's contains the tom...
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Pantheon, Paris - Reviews of Pantheon - IgoUgo
The Panthéon also contains a working model of Foucault's pendulum. That's right, it's more than just a book by Umberto Eco. Foucault's pendulum experiment was conducted in the Panthéon in 1851, demonstrating the rotation of the earth. The pendulum appears to rotate over a 24 hour period, when in f...
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Panthéon- Paris, France - VirtualTourist.com
Louis XV vowed in 1744 that if he recovered from an illness he would replace the ruined church of St. Genèvieve Abbey with an edifice to the glory of the patron saint of Paris: St. Genèvieve. The Marquis of Marigny was entrusted with the fulfillment of the vow after the king regained his health. The...
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Panthéon, Paris
Construction of the imposing building started in 1757. Mainly due to financial problems, it took 34 years before completion. After Soufflot's death in 1780, his associate Guillaume Rondelet took charge of the project. The building was finished in 1791, in the midst of the French Revolution. That sam...
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