Saint Etienne du Mont Church and Pantheon

Saint Etienne du Mont Church and Pantheon

Print

Saint Etienne du Mont Church and Pantheon

Saint-Etienne-du-Mont et le Panthéon


ca. 1916
Collotype
Overall: 9 x 13.9 cm
Gift of Ann McCabe
Inscriptions recto (printed in black ink): 4601. PARIS
Saint-Etienne-du-Mont
et le Panthéon

Commencé en 1764 sur les plans de Soufflot
Ancienne Eglise Sainte-Geneviéve. Consacrée
aux Grands citoyens par l"Assemblée Cons-
tituante, rendu au Culte par la Restauration
redevenu Panthéon en 1830. Eglise Sainte
Geneviéve en 1851, il reprit en 1885, à
l'occasion des funérailles de Victor Hugo
le title de Panthéon.
(printed in black ink): Saint Etienne du Mont
Church and Pantheon

Begun in 1764 from the plans of Souf-
flot. Ancient Saint Genevieve Church.
Consecrated to the grat citizens by
the Constituent Assemby, rendered,
to Worship by the Restaurationt [sic]
Pantheon again in 1830, Sain [sic]
Genevieve church in 1851. it took
again the title of Pantheon on the
occasion of the funeral of Victor
Hugo in 1885.
verso (printed in black ink): CARTE POSTALE
CORRESPONDANCE ADRESSE
(printed in black ink): E LeDeley, imp.-édit., 127, Boul. de Sébastopol, Paris.
(black ink): R.F. Meyering
U.S. Army

You see that
statue to the left
of the Pantheon,
Well that's,
"Corneille".
Enough said.
(black ink): My Girlie
[verso inscription digitally reproduced in media file R ]

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