After we visit the Luxembourg Garden. Josh and I continued our walk on street. Not too far just couple streets away, we found Panthéon! An imposing 19th century building, was first designed as a church, but later turned into a civil temple.






We only went inside because the time was still early for lunch. However when we got inside, something caught our attention: The Foucault's Pendulum! The Panthéon was also the place where, in 1851, the astronomer Jean Bernard Léon Foucault first held his famous experiment, proving that the world spins around its axis. The Foucault pendulum moved in 1851 to the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers (3e arr). In 1995, it temporarily moved back to the Panthéon due to construction works at the Conservatoire.








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