Or as I like to call it, Let’s See MORE Dead People.

The Panthéon is pretty close to where we have classes so a few of us decided to go see where more famous people are buried, such as Jean Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire, Pierre and Marie Curie, and my pal Victor Hugo. And yes I started to sing Master of the House in front of Victor Hugo’s tomb. I was going to ask if Pierre and Marie Curie’s graves glow in the dark, but I thought that was tacky. Guess I will have to live in the dark, even if they don’t.

The crypts were just a little creepy, but they had some useful information by each tomb about the person, which was pretty informative. We also saw Mr. Braille, the inventor of (you guessed it!) Braille. They should have written his tombstone in Braille, but then I guess they don’t want people manhandling the poor guy’s grave.

We went on this tour of the building that actually wasn’t a tour at all. They plopped you into each room and said to go look around. But you could only have access to the observatory deck if you took the tour, so we did. Again, it was the perfect place to grab some profile pictures. I’m literally set for the rest of the year, and I’m only almost half way done with the trip (!).

But what was unbelievably awesome and totally unexpected was that the Panthéon had an entire exhibit on Jean Jacques Rousseau or, as I call him, JJ. Now apparently JJ was a little bit of a snob, writing all these revolutionary texts and influencing things like the writing of the Declaration of Independence. He also apparently composed music. So this entire exhibit had all of these old books, all in french, all with little scribbles in the margins, that were all on display. His original scores that he wrote were also on display, and they even had a little computer set up so that you could listen to recordings of his pieces. It was so cool and I really got a kick out of seeing all of the music. Unfortunately you couldn’t take any pictures, but I did happen to “check my phone” and by accident take a picture of this piece of music that was intended as a song for Desdemona in Othello, which I will post (you guessed it again!) whenever.

I feel like I’m barely scratching the surface with what I’ve seen, but I think the pictures will help shape the story. They do say a picture is worth a thousand words, and at the rate I’m going, I’d have more words than the average 90’s rapper. Word.

Up Next: Musée Carnavalet