Stephanie in the City of Lights: Panthéon

Bonjour tous!
Today I finally visited the Panthéon, which I've been meaning to visit more or less since I got here, but just never got around to before, which is silly, since it's not at all far from my art history classes and the Jardin du Luxembourg.
So what is the Panthéon? An intriguing question. Wikipedia does a pretty good job of summarizing the history and purpose of this space, which I myself learned all about when I was there. Briefly, the Panthéon is the current name (dating from the French Revolution) for what was once the Cathédrale Sainte-Geneviève, and, like Westminster Abbey in England, it now houses the tombs of many important French citizens--Alexandre Dumas (The Three Musketeers), Victor Hugo (see my post on the 16th arrondissement), Voltaire, Rousseau (see my post on Parc Jean-Jacques Rousseau), Pierre and Marie Curie, etc. (Marie Curie is the only woman interred there on her own merit--the only other woman there was only included to not separate her from her husband... which is ironic considering that the building was constructed in the first place to honor the relics of Sainte Geneviève, the patroness of Paris.) There are also some more general dedications there as well--like to les Justes de France (justes here could be roughly translated as "the righteous ones"), who are numerous French citizens who helped French Jews either hide, fake papers, or flee the country during the Nazi occupation. It's also got another example of a Foucault's Pendulum, which some of you may remember I also saw at le musée des arts et métiers back in October. Just more evidence that the world is rotating on its own axis and around the sun! So all in all, it's a very interesting place.