The following Pantheon history :
The XIXth century still hesitate between the civic (Louis-Philippe) and the religious vocation (the two Empires): in 1806, Napoleon returns the nave to the religion and she becomes again the church Saint -
Genevieve; the crypt remains the sanctuary of the empire dignitaries.
From 1831 to 1852 it is again the Pantheon, then more the church Saint-Genevieve.
In 1885, the Victor Hugo funeral ceremonies establish the Pantheon definitely like mausoleum.
However, these successive changes didn't remedy the impoverishment which imposed the Revolution, it conferring a sweltering aspect.
Since more than a century it welcomes, with a unpredictable rhythm, the illustrious men, in the first place the policies as the murdered president Sadi Carnot, the republican ardent Leon Gambetta, the ex-minister of the foreign business Marcellin Berthelots, the tribune socialist John Jaures, the resistant John Moulin and one the Europe Leaders , John Monet.
The scientific field provided to it the mathematician Condorcet, the blind alphabet inventor Louis Braille, and the Nobel taken Pierre Curie.
Also the others are represented by André Malraux, Victor Hugo, Voltaire, Rousseau and Emile Zola. The transfer of there ashes had caused with an vivacious tensions. A journalist of the right extreme had pulled two bullets on Alfred Dreyfus. It is necessary there to add, in this end 2002, Alexander Dumas.
To the woman point of view, only two women have the right to this honor:
The woman of Marcellin Berthelot (solely as wife) and the physicist Marie Curie.