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In the days following the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune, the Government conceived the project of decorating the Pantheon, which had just been once more secularized, in order to convert it into a temple wherein all the shining lights of the nation could be brought together and honoured.
M. de Chennevieres, who at that time was director of the Beaux Arts gave the first place, in that illustrious line, to the noble and serene Genevieve, patron saint of Paris, incarnate ideal of patriotism.