Panthéon - Paris, France
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N 48° 50.783 E 002° 20.713
31U E 451960 N 5410585
This 5 New French Francs bank note is depicting the building of Pantheon in Paris and portrait of Victor Hugo (he is buried there).
Waymark Code: WME1AZ
Location: Île-de-France, France
Date Posted: 03/20/2012
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member TheBeanTeam
Views: 55

The impressive Panthéon is a neo-Classical church in the Latin Quarter of Paris. It was originally an abbey dedicated to St. Genevieve (the patron saint of Paris), but now functions primarily as a burial place for famous French heroes.

In 1744, King Louis XV vowed that if he recovered from a mysterious illness he would replace the ruined Abbey of St. Geneviève with an edifice worthy of the patron saint of Paris. The king regained his health, and the Marquis of Marigny was entrusted with the fulfillment of the vow. Marigny's protégé Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713-1780) was charged with the plans, and the construction of the Panthéon began.

The Panthéon's foundations were laid in 1758, but due to financial difficulties, it was not completed until after Soufflot's death, in 1789. As it was completed at the start of the French Revolution, the new Revolutionary government ordered it to be changed from a church to a mausoleum for the interment of great Frenchmen. Twice since then it has reverted to being a church, only to once again become a temple to the great men of France.

In 1851 physicist Léon Foucault demonstrated the rotation of the Earth by his experiment conducted in the Panthéon, by constructing the 67 m Foucault's pendulum beneath the central dome. The original iron sphere from the pendulum was returned to the Panthéon in 1995 from the Conservatoire.

Money Issuing Country: France

Currency: Franc

Denomination: 5

Date of Issue: 02/04/1960

Type of Money: Bank note

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