It was at the centre of the Abbey of Saint Genevieve, a centre of religious scholarship in the Middle Ages. The church, originally dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul, was rededicated to Saint Genevieve, who became the patron saint of Paris. In 508, Clovis, King of the Franks, constructed a church there, where he and his wife were later buried in 511 and 545. It was also the original burial site of Saint Genevieve, who had led the resistance to the Huns when they threatened Paris in 451. It was on Mount Lucotitius, a height on the Left Bank where the forum of the Roman town of Lutetia was located.
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The site of the Panthéon had great significance in Paris history, and was occupied by a series of monuments.
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The successive changes in the Panthéon's purpose resulted in modifications of the pedimental sculptures and the capping of the dome by a cross or a flag some of the originally existing windows were blocked up with masonry in order to give the interior a darker and more funereal atmosphere, which compromised somewhat Soufflot's initial attempt at combining the lightness and brightness of the Gothic cathedral with classical principles. The placement of Victor Hugo's remains in the crypt in 1885 was its first entombment in over fifty years.
The Panthéon was twice restored to church usage in the course of the 19th century-although Soufflot's remains were transferred inside it in 1829-until the French Third Republic finally decreed the building's exclusive use as a mausoleum in 1881. The first panthéonisé was Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, although his remains were removed from the building a few years later. Neither Soufflot nor Louis XV lived to see the church completed.īy the time the construction was finished, the French Revolution had started the National Constituent Assembly voted in 1791 to transform the Church of Saint Genevieve into a mausoleum for the remains of distinguished French citizens, modelled on the Pantheon in Rome which had been used in this way since the 16th century. The edifice was built between 17, from designs by Jacques-Germain Soufflot, at the behest of King Louis XV of France the king intended it as a church dedicated to Saint Genevieve, Paris' patron saint, whose relics were to be housed in the church. It stands in the Latin Quarter, atop the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, in the centre of the Place du Panthéon, which was named after it. The Panthéon ( French: ( listen), from the Classical Greek word πάνθειον, pántheion, ' to all the gods') is a monument in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France.
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