The building, designed by architect Germain Soufflot in 1764, was originally intended as a church dedicated to Sainte Geneviève, saint patron of Paris. In 1791, during the French Revolution, the ...

There are many iconic photographs of Marie Curie: Early on with her husband, Pierre, with whom she shared the first of her Nobel Prizes; and, after his death, standing alone with her instruments in ...

Armenian Resistance hero Missak Manouchian will be laid to rest Wednesday in France’s Pantheon on the 80th anniversary of his killing by a Nazi firing squad. So-called pantheonisation is France’s ...

France has a special place for burying its favorite men—the Pantheon, a giant marble structure first built in 1790, originally as a church. In 1791, the National Constituent Assembly ordered the ...

PARIS – President Francois Hollande says two women who fought with the French Resistance during World War II will be inducted into Paris' renowned Pantheon — the eternal resting place of dozens of ...