Novelist Emile Zola , socialist leader Jean Jauras , Leon Gambetta ( leader during the 1870 siege of Paris ) , Louis Braille ( inventor of the blind alphabet ) , Pierre and Marie Curie ( discoverers of radium , honored only in 1995 ; she being the Pantheon 's first woman ) , and many other national heroes are interred here .
The museum holds a lot of information about these figures .