Armenian Resistance hero Missak Manouchian will be laid to rest Wednesday in France’s Pantheon on the 80th anniversary of his killing by a Nazi firing squad. So-called pantheonisation is France’s highest honour – but what are its origins, and what's the criteria for entering this secular temple that celebrates the nation's most eminent figures?
One of the great landmarks of the French capital, the Pantheon – whose architecture is based on the Pantheon in Rome – was the city’s tallest building before the construction of the Eiffel Tower in 1889.
