MAUSOLEUM OF GREAT MEN. — The Pantheon was originally intended for a church in honour of Sainte Genevieve, the patron saint of the City of Paris. It was begun in 1764 from the design of Soufflet but the Revolution had occurred before its completion and the building was turned into a national maussoleum for great men. In 1791 Mirabeau was buried there in state and to-day the company of the great dead buried in the Pantheon include Rousseau, Voltaire, Victor Hugo, and Emile Zola.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 June 1940, Page 12
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83MAUSOLEUM OF GREAT MEN.—The Pantheon was originally intended for a church in honour of Sainte Genevieve, the patron saint of the City of Paris. It was begun in 1764 from the design of Soufflet but the Revolution had occurred before its completion and the building was turned into a national maussoleum for great men. In 1791 Mirabeau was buried there in state and to-day the company of the great dead buried in the Pantheon include Rousseau, Voltaire, Victor Hugo, and Emile Zola. Greymouth Evening Star, 13 June 1940, Page 12
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