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During the 1789 french revolution and shortly after its
construction, the Panthéon was turned into a memorial to illustrious Frenchmen.
It now hosts among others the remains of Pierre and Marie
Curie, the physicists who discovered radioactivity, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
and Victor Hugo, three famous French writers and philosophers.
The Panthéon
stands in the middle of the Panthéon square (Place du Panthéon). It is not far from the Luxembourg metro station on the RER B.
The Pantheon is open from 10am to 5.30pm, 9.30 am to
6.30 pm
from April to September. Telephone number 33 (0)1 43 54 34 51. Paris
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