The Panthéon {1790}, “Every God” from Greek, was originally built as a church & now functions as a secular mausoleum containing the remains of distinguished French citizens. 

It was the first thing we actually planned to visit, since we spent our first two days wandering around Paris.  I must admit  I was not thrilled to go to the Panthéon since I didn’t know much about it; gladly my best friend is smarter than I am so we headed there. I almost cried when we stepped in, it was the most beautiful place I’d ever seen {obviously I had many more days to prove that wrong}. People buried there are lucky bastards, it’s definitively an honour to rest forever with other genius & in such a perfect location. Unfortunately the Foucault pendulum, used by Léon Foucault in 1851 to demonstrate the rotation of the earth, wasn’t there when we visited it.

P.S.: I just found out about this mesmerizing anthropomorphic installation by Ernesto Neto, a Brazilian artist, called “Léviathan Thot” {2006}, inspired by the biblical monster. It’s so perfect I can’t even.