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François de Vergnette, « Anticléricalisme et naturalisme au Panthéon : le décor de Jean-Paul Laurens », Histoire de l'art, ID : 10.3406/hista.1994.2638
Anti-clericalism and naturalism in the Panthéon : the decor of Jean-Paul Laurens. Commissioned by Philippe de Chennevières, Jean-Paul Laurens did the paintings for the Sainte-Geneviève church in Paris between 1874 and 1885. This was the period in France when the young Third Republic was taking root and seeking to secularise the state