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...ashes of Jean Jaurés, famed French Socialist, who was assassinated on the eve of the outbreak of the War in 1914, were deposited in their final resting place ? the Pantheon, national shrine of Republican France...
...Pantheon, the ashes of the dead man's body were laid to rest to the tune of La Carmagnole, anthem of the Revolution...
Premier Herriot, who with President Doumergue and the whole French Government, was present, eulogized the slain man, recalled his brilliant and famed oratory, his career, said: "Maternal France receives him lovingly in her Pantheon because he represented several of the highest qualities of her genius; because it was in being so profoundly French that he showed himself so widely human...
Start, say from the Musee de duny, and stroll up the "Boul Mich" as far as the Jardin de Luxembourg. On the left is the Pantheon, proudly bearing its inscription Anx Grands Hommes la Patrie Reconnaissante. With these thoughts the boulevard must be crossed ; and down the Rue de Medicis, past the famous fountain of the same name, the massive square Odeon looms up across the intersecting Rue de Vaugirard. Along the near side runs a colonnade under which the booksellers still have their stalls as they used to long ago when the Odeon was called the Theatre...
Some of the dimensions are impressive. The Court of Honor, where the exercises and the masque are to be held is 360 feet square and the smaller ones 165 feet square. The library is crowned by a dome similar to that of the Pantheon in Rome, which rises 180 feet above the court or nearly 200 feet above the river...