Panthéon, University building and historic monument in Latin Quarter, Paris, France.

The Centre Panthéon, also called the École de droit de Paris, is a pale stone academic building at 12, place du Panthéon, designed by Jacques-Germain Soufflot between 1771 and 1773. Its central portico of four columns carries a triangular pediment, with an arched relief and a plaque reading "FACULTÉ DE DROIT" above the blue double door. Symmetrical three-storey wings with tall rectangular windows and balustraded balconies flank the portico, and "LIBERTÉ EGALITÉ FRATERNITÉ" is carved between two round windows below the slate roof.

Louis XV ordered a building for law students and professors on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève in 1753. After the Jesuits were expelled from the Collège de Lisieux in 1762, Daniel-Charles Trudaine granted a new faculty building on that site, designed by Jacques-Germain Soufflot and built from 1771 to 1773. It opened in 1774 and was inaugurated in 1783. Closed in 1793, the law school reopened on 22 November 1805 under the Napoleonic Code.

The building is known as the École de droit de Paris, and its facade carries the motto "Liberté Égalité Fraternité" above the entrance, with "Faculté de Droit" on a plaque over the door. Since 1970 it has housed both the Panthéon-Sorbonne and Panthéon-Assas law schools, whose students pass through the central blue double door.

The Centre Panthéon stands at 12, place du Panthéon, facing the square of the same name in the 5th arrondissement, a short walk from the Luxembourg RER station. It is a working university building housing the presidencies of Panthéon-Sorbonne and Panthéon-Assas, so access is not that of a museum. Look for the inscription "FACULTÉ DE DROIT" above the central blue door.

The building was designed by Jacques-Germain Soufflot, the architect of the nearby Panthéon, between 1771 and 1773. It has been listed as a Monument historique since 6 January 1926. Since the 1970 split of the University of Paris, it has housed the head offices of both Panthéon-Sorbonne and Panthéon-Assas.