You should explain what it is for.
In this place the most popular personalities of the french history are burried in a crypt to remember them for ever. Personalities like Emile Zola,Victor Hugo, Andre Malraux, Pierre & Marie Curie, Jean Moulin, Jean Monnet, René Cassin, Rousseau and Voltaire among many others rest here in a crypt.
The latin word Pantheon designs the entity of all gods and mythologies in one edifice that the romans and greeks once buided for all their divinities.
In the period of 508 after JC, an abey was build here and it contained the tumbs of
King Clovis and his wife Clothilde. Later the King Louis XV ordered to build here the Pantheon on the place of St Genevieve Abey. The Pantheon was indeed a church Louis XV promised to build if was able to recover from a serious sickness he had.
The first stone was put by him in 1764.
The bell towers and some other signs of a church where removed and at the death of Victor Hugo in 1885, it was decided to keep the building axclusively for republican liturgy uses.
The Pantheon is build on a very soft and spongy soil. The french governement is fighting with this fact since the beginning and the architect Jaques Soufflot died from all the problems that stressed him. Since the beginning the building had to be reinforced since it was impôssible to keep the foundations and the soil quite. Even today, one is not allowed to move around in the center of the building, only by the side walls and nets are hanging under the ceilings to prevent stones and parts of the ceiling to fall on people.
Depite of this, the Pantheon remains one of the most popular places to visit in Paris.
