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Louis-François-Clement Breguet (uncle) Sophie Caroline Berthelot ( née Niaudet; February 17, 1837 – March 18, 1907) [1] became the first woman to be interred in the Panthéon, alongside her husband Marcellin Berthelot. She was the only woman interred in the Panthéon until Marie Curie almost a century later in 1995. [2] [3]
The Lycée Henri-IV [1] is a public secondary school located in Paris. Along with the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, it is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious and demanding sixth-form colleges ( lycées) in France. The school educates more than 2,500 students from collège (the first four years of secondary education in France) to classes ...
Coordinates: 48°50′45.2″N 2°20′52.2″E. The Abbey of Saint Genevieve (French: Abbaye Sainte-Geneviève) was a monastery in Paris. Reportedly built by Clovis, King of the Franks in 502, it became a centre of religious scholarship in the Middle Ages. It was suppressed at the time of the French Revolution . Front of the Church of the ...
Le Panthéon comme les Invalides est le lieu où se déroulent les cérémonies d’hommage national. De grandes figures y reposent, comme Victor Hugo, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile Zola ...
One of the most iconic monuments in Paris, the Panthéon was intended to be a church located in the 5th arrondissement, in the heart of Paris. The best laid plans however, can change. Built in the 17th century, it was intended to be dedicated to Saint Genevieve, Paris’s patron saint who lived in the area in the 5th century.
Peu de temps après, en 1806, Napoléon Bonaparte restitue l’édifice à l’église catholique, mais conserve la crypte pour y inhumer les dignitaires d’Empire. En 1815, sous la Restauration , le monument redevient, dans son intégralité, une église, avant de reprendre sa fonction de Panthéon en 1830, sous la Monarchie de Juillet .
The Hôtel des Invalides (English: "house of invalids" ), commonly called Les Invalides ( French pronunciation: [lezɛ̃valid] ), is a complex of buildings in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France, containing museums and monuments, all relating to the military history of France, as well as a hospital and an Old Soldiers' retirement home, the ...
