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Eglise Saint Joseph

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Eglise Saint Joseph
Eglise Saint Joseph
Eglise Saint Joseph
Eglise Saint Joseph
Eglise Saint Joseph
Eglise Saint Joseph
Eglise Saint Joseph
Eglise Saint Joseph
Eglise Saint Joseph
Eglise Saint Joseph
Eglise Saint Joseph
Eglise Saint Joseph
Eglise Saint Joseph
Eglise Saint Joseph
Eglise Saint Joseph
Eglise Saint Joseph
Eglise Saint Joseph
Eglise Saint Joseph
Eglise Saint Joseph
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3 Place Andre Leroy, 49100, Angers, France

The Panthéon is a building in the Latin Quarter in Paris, France. It was originally built as a church dedicated to St. Genevieve and to house the reliquary châsse containing her relics but, after many changes, now functions as a secular mausoleum containing the remains of distinguished French citizens. It is an early example of neo-classicism, with a façade modelled on the Pantheon in Rome, surmounted by a dome that owes some of its character to Bramante's Tempietto. Located in the 5th arrondissement on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, the Panthéon looks out over all of Paris. Designer Jacques-Germain Soufflot had the intention of combining the lightness and brightness of the Gothic cathedral with classical principles, but its role as a mausoleum required the great Gothic windows to be blocked.
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