Sainte Genevieve

Sainte-Geneviève, 1757 Paris

architect: Jacque Soufflot

patron: King Louis XV

Sainte Genevieve, dome

Model of the dome, triple dome

Sainte Genevieve, plan

Sainte Genevieve, interior, The vault is cut-away wherever possible to achieve the effect of lightness which characterizes gothic architecture

Sainte Genevieve, interior

French History Timeline

• Monarchy 751-1792

• Revolution Republic 1792-1799

• Empire (Napoleon Bonaparte) 1799-1814

• Monarchy restored 1814-1848

• Revolution Second Republic 1848-1852

• Second Empire (Napoleon III) 1852-1870

• Third Republic 1870-1940

• Nazi occupation 1940-44

• Fourth Republic 1946

• Fifth Republic (Charles de Gaulle) 1958

Sainte Genevieve

“The Pantheon”

“Aux Grands Hommes La Patrie Reconnaissante”

Philosophy overwhelming the monsters of superstition

The Fatherland crowning virtue and the spirit of the people.

Public Education

Foucault’s Pendulum, 1851

Sainte Genevieve, side view of covered over windows