Great men and fallen heroes

Jessica Goodman explores how the meaning of ‘hero’ shifted in
France in the late eighteenth-century in this TORCH Bite-Size talk
at the Ashmolean Museum LiveFriday. In the late eighteenth century
the French start rethinking what a hero is - it's not about wars
and kings and soldiers any more, but people like writers and
artists and scientists, who make a useful (and sometimes moral)
contribution to the nation through means other than military glory.
In this TORCH bite-size talk Jessica explores this shift and its
influence on the creation of the Panthéon, which was a huge secular
temple to house the bodies of these 'great men'.