Voyage au Panthéon | Philippe Bélaval

EAN : 9782258200180

Shaping : BROCHE

Pages : 272

Size : 120 x 210 mm

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Journey to the Panthéon

Philippe Bélaval

Release date : 15/09/2022

A two-century journey to the heart of the Pantheon, its history, its heroes, its great men and a few stars... Philippe Bélaval, who for ten years was in charge of the conservation of this monument which has a very special place in our collective identity, invites us to a fascinating reading of history.

The Panthéon, a famous but little-understood monument, has not easily found its place in society and the political landscape. Controversies surrounding the admission of Émile Zola and Jean Jaurès, and, more recently, debates surrounding the suitability of Arthur Rimbaud or Molière, bear witness to this. The very notion of "great... The Panthéon, a famous but little-understood monument, has not easily found its place in society and the political landscape. Controversies surrounding the admission of Émile Zola and Jean Jaurès, and, more recently, debates surrounding the suitability of Arthur Rimbaud or Molière, bear witness to this. The very notion of "great man" is no longer sufficient to give a consensual image of the monument in a society that seeks to be increasingly egalitarian and where the place of women, scandalously underrepresented in the Pantheon, is now the object of scrutiny. However, the Pantheon has so many links with history, architecture and art, so many events and anecdotes, as well as so many secrets! The reader is invited to wander freely through two centuries of political, religious and aesthetic controversy: who decides whether a personality is to be admitted to the Pantheon? How is a ceremony organised? Why do we still see religious symbols in this secular monument? Why are there not more women in the Pantheon? How does the enormous dome remain in place? Is it true that some people admitted to the Pantheon have since been removed? Why are so many Pantheonists unknown, and so many famous people absent? The author tackles these questions from his own experience — in charge of the conservation and animation of the Pantheon for more than ten years, and author of a 2014 report intended to cast light on the monument — in the form of a sensitive and nostalgic journey on which we meet several presidents and an emperor, architects of varying celebrity, great writers, exceptional women, artists of past and present, a few murderers,a marshal of the empire, and even a merry band of clandestine clockmakers. So many invitations to discover or explore more deeply one of the places that best express the complexity of the French collective identity, and at the same time, by showing us the heritage and evolution of which our era is the result, allows us to understand it better and perhaps to feel more a part of it.

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EAN : 9782258200180

Shaping : BROCHE

Pages : 272

Size : 120 x 210 mm

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