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Pantheon (fr Panthéon.) - an architectural and historical monument, a sample of French classicism in the Latin Quarter V District of Paris, France. The original church of St. Genevieve, later - the tomb of prominent people Frantsii.Nadpis at the entrance to the Pantheon reads: "Great people grateful fatherland" (Fr. AUX GRANDS HOMMES LA PATRIE RECONNAISSANTE.).Pompeznoe building in the style of mature classicism was built on the territory of the Abbey of St. Genevieve architect G. Soufflot who took the example of the Roman Pantheon. Construction was carried out under a vow of King Louis XV, who swore in the case of his recovery from a serious illness in the Abbey to build a new church. The foundation was laid in 1758 and the building was completed in 1789 by a disciple of Soufflot g.Ko temple King completion time he was overthrown and the revolutionary government ordered the conversion of the church into the mausoleum of great French.