The Sorbonne ended January 20th and didn't start up again until February 10th so I had a lot of free time on my hands. My babysitting still continued but from the time I woke up to around 330pm I had nothing to do. So I tried to keep busy with outings and visits to places that are father out from the city or that I still had not seen. Like the Pantheon. I passed this building every Wednesday on my way to lectures and had not gone in so Katie and I decided during the break we would go visit it. I had been in it once before when I was here in 2007 so I remembered the tombs and those who rest there now (like Marie and Pierre Curie, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola and many other famous French people from the revolution to both world wars). The pictures I took were of the main level since I really didn't want more pictures of tombs and the main floor is much more elaborate. It was built to be a chapel in the 1750s and later changed during the 1790s to be a resting place for notable Frenchmen.
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