Editing Panthéon (section)

===Under Louis Philippe I, the Second Republic and Napoleon III (1830–1871)===
[[File:Alphonse-Louis Poitevin, The Pantheon, 1842.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Daguerreotype by [[Alphonse Louis Poitevin]], 1842]]
The [[French Revolution of 1830]] placed [[Louis Philippe I]] on the throne. He expressed sympathy for Revolutionary values, and on 26 August 1830, the church once again became the Pantheon. However, the crypt remained closed to the public, and no new remains were added. The only change made was to the main pediment, which had been remade with a radiant cross; it was remade again by D'Angers with a patriotic work called ''The Nation Distributing Crowns Handed to Her by Liberty, to Great Men, Civil and Military, While History Inscribes Their Names.''

Louis Philippe was overthrown in 1848 and replaced by the elected government of the [[Second French Republic]], which valued revolutionary themes. The new government designated the Pantheon "The Temple of Humanity", and proposed to decorate it with sixty new murals honouring human progress in all fields. In 1851 the [[Foucault Pendulum]] of astronomer [[Léon Foucault]] was hung beneath the dome to illustrate the rotation of the earth. However, on complaints from the Church, it was removed in December of the same year.

[[Napoleon III|Louis Napoléon]], nephew of the Emperor, was elected President of France in December 1848, and in 1852 staged a coup-d'état and made himself Emperor. Once again the Pantheon was returned to the church, with the title of "National Basilica". The remaining relics of Saint Genevieve were restored to the church, and two groups of sculpture commemorating events in the life of the Saint were added. The crypt remained closed.