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The primary decoration of the Western Nave is a series of paintings, beginning in the Narthex, depicting the lives of Saint Denis, the patron saint of Paris, and longer series on the life of Saint Genevieve, by Puvis de Chavannes, Alexandre Cabanel, Jules Eugène Lenepveu and other notable history painters of the 19th century.
The Place du Panthéon ([plas dy pɑ̃teɔ̃]) is a square in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France. Located in the Latin Quarter , it is named after and surrounds the Panthéon . The Rue Soufflot , west of the Place du Panthéon, runs towards the Boulevard Saint-Michel .
The 5th arrondissement of Paris (V e arrondissement) is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, this arrondissement is referred to as le cinquième . The arrondissement, also known as Panthéon, is situated on the Rive Gauche of the River Seine .
Pantheon, Rome, Italy, a Catholic church and former Roman temple; Panthéon, Paris, France, a monument Place du Panthéon, a square; Pantheon, London, England, an 18th-century place of entertainment; Pantheon of Illustrious Men, a royal site in Madrid, Spain; Pantheon of National Revival Heroes, a Bulgarian national monument and ossuary
Following is a list of pantheons of deities in specific spiritual practices: . African pantheons; Armenian pantheon; Aztec pantheon; Buddhist pantheon; Berber pantheon; Burmese pantheon
Saint-Étienne-du-Mont (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t‿etjɛn dy mɔ̃]) is a church in Paris, France, on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève in the 5th arrondissement, near the Panthéon. It contains the shrine of St. Geneviève, the patron saint of Paris. The church also contains the tombs of Blaise Pascal and Jean Racine.
The Grand Palais - a large glass exhibition hall built for the 1900 Paris Exhibition; Les Invalides - complex containing museums and monuments relating to the military history of France; The Palais Garnier - Paris's central opera house, built in the later Second Empire period; The Panthéon - church and tomb of a number of France's most famed ...
The first public exhibition of a Foucault pendulum took place in February 1851 in the Meridian of the Paris Observatory. A few weeks later, Foucault made his most famous pendulum when he suspended a 28-kilogram (62 lb) brass-coated lead bob with a 67-metre long (220 ft) wire from the dome of the Panthéon, Paris.