The inscription – "Aux grands hommes la patrie reconnaissante" ("The fatherland remembers its great men") – was put on the facade of the Panthéon in Paris shortly after it was repurposed as the original national hall of fame.
Inscription on the main facade of the Pantheon in Paris, colour photograph, 2016, photographer: Chabe01; source: Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fronton_Panth%C3%A9on_Paris_1.jpg, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/.