I still remember it was cloudy and cold when I got out of subway exit to go to Pantheon. It was gloomy but I felt exciting because I was right on the track for it by myself as schedule planned and expected to see a visual art as well as Pantheon.

 

The Panthéon (LatinPantheon[1] , from GreekPantheon, meaning "Temple of all the Gods") is a building in the Latin Quarter in Paris, France. It was originally built as a church dedicated to St. Genevieve, but after many changes now combines liturgical functions with its role as a famous burial place.

 

Rue Soufflot, I thought for the first time it's just a street name. It actually named Soufflot, an architect who designed the new basilica of Pantheon.

 

 

 It was too early to open the Pantheon and it was cold. I couldn't help but go to coffee shop next to Pantheon. Cappuccino Espresso is my taste.

 

 

It's decorated with visual art by Ernesto neto, part of autumn festival inside the Pantheon. It looks grotesque but fits well.

 

 

Most of pictures on the wall was not familiar and they depict France history. But I was happy to find the familiar girl, Jeanne d'Arc.

 

 

I couldn't believe that I found the Foucault pendulum in Pantheon. It's not expected but really amazing.

The Foucault pendulum, or Foucault's pendulum, named after the French physicist Léon Foucault, was conceived as an experiment to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth; its action is a result of the Coriolis effect.

Foucault made his most famous pendulum when he suspended a 28-kg bob with a 67-metre wire from the dome of the Panthéon in Paris. In 1851 it was well known that the Earth moved: experimental evidence included the aberration of starlight, stellar parallax, and the Earth's measured polar flattening and equatorial bulge. However Foucault's pendulum was the first dynamical proof of the rotation in an easy-to-see experiment, and it created a justified sensation in both the learned and everyday worlds.

 

 

There is a body of Victor Hugo inside a heavy and rocky casket.

Under the revolution, the honours of the Pantheon were also awarded to Voltaire, in 1791, to Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Also honours to Victor Hugo in 1885.