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the Pantheon in Paris only mentions men

Rumpelstil said:
the English word man can also mean both male and female persons

in German we have the word Mensch for both
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In Swedish Man = man- It also means 'husband' and is also used for the English 'one' - as in 'One should always carry an umbrella in Manchester'.
 
Rumpelstil said:
Now there is a discussion where it should also mention women.

hommes = men, or humans
femmes = women


what do you think?
i am undecided
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Please take into account the relevant time period and commonly used terms and their meaning. Context.
 
Maybe this will make you happy.
The inscription on the Paris Panthéon reads "Aux grands hommes la patrie reconnaissante" ("To great men, the grateful homeland") because it reflects the mindset of the French Revolution when the building was secularized. At that time, the concept of a "great man" was understood to encompass figures who made significant public contributions, while the role of women was relegated to the private sphere.
During the 18th century, women were largely excluded from political and public life in France. The phrase reflected the social norms of the era, which did not publicly acknowledge women's contributions in the same way as men's.
For centuries, the masculine plural hommes (men) was used in French to refer to people in a gender-neutral sense, similar to the use of "mankind" in English. However, the literal translation "great men" has rightly been challenged as archaic and exclusionary by modern standards. (AI)
The building wasn't built during modern standards.
Why can the left just not let history be history and move on. You can't change history, learn from it and move on. Maybe you can get them to put a pink hat on the building?
 
ataraxia said:
What woman would you want to see there? Joan of arc? Marie Curie?
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Joan has monuments dedicated to her in several places in France, notable monuments are located in Paris, including the Place des Pyramides and the Rue de Rivoli, and in Orléans and Reims, France.
Monuments to Marie Curie include her final resting place in the Panthéon in Paris for her own merits, numerous statues and monuments in Poland (such as in Warsaw and Lublin) and elsewhere, the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum in her birthplace of Warsaw, the Marie Curie Playground in New York City, and the former Laboratory of Marie Curie.
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Do you want us to add men to these?
 
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