PARIS (AP) — The tomb of former French Justice Minister Robert Badinter, who was known for defending human rights and was inducted into the country’s Panthéon national monument Thursday, was ...

Singer, dancer and activist Josephine Baker is set to become the first Black woman buried in Paris’ Panthéon monument, receiving one of the highest honors bestowed on French citizens, reports Olivier ...

Before the Eiffel Tower redesigned the Paris skyline, the Pantheon was the highest viewpoint in the capital. Perched on ...

Carved into the façade of the Panthéon, the huge domed stone structure in Paris’s Latin Quarter, are the words “Aux grands hommes, la patrie reconnaissante.” “To the great men, a grateful fatherland.” ...

Three hours before Josephine Baker was inducted into the Panthéon last week, Brian Bouillon-Baker, one of her ten sons, was on the terrace of a café in Montparnasse. “We found out in May that they ...

Long ReadOn February 21, 80 years after he and his comrades were executed during the Nazi occupation, Missak Manouchian and his wife Mélinée will be laid to rest at the Panthéon. Eager to learn more ...

American-born French performer Joséphine Baker will be entered into Paris' Panthéon mausoleum, making her the first black woman to receive the honour. The government says Baker will be inducted into ...

Interment in Paris’s Panthéon is one of the greatest posthumous honors a French citizen could hope to achieve, as it's reserved for the country’s most celebrated luminaries. But to say that the burial ...

The tomb of former French justice minister Robert Badinter, who is set to be inducted into the country’s Panthéon national monument Thursday, was vandalized in a cemetery close to Paris, officials ...