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| | Paris MYSTERIOUS : Sorbonne and Pantheon - History and Description |
 | | The grim-looking buildings to the south of rue des Ecoles are the Sorbonne, the Collège de France - where Michel Foucault taught - and the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, wich numbers Molière, Robespierre, Pompidou and Victor Hugo among its graduates, and Sartre among its teachers. |
 | | The Richelieu chapel, dominating the uphill end and containing the tomb of the great cardinal, was the first Roman-influenced buliding in seventeeth-century and set the trend for subsequent developments. |
 | | It was transformed during the revolution into a mausoleum for the great, and the ashes of Voltaire, Rousseau, Hugo and Zola, among others, were transferred here and laid to rest in the vast barrel-vaulted crypt below. |
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