Sophie Caroline Berthelot (née Niaudet; February 17, 1837 – March 18, 1907)[1] became the first woman to be interred in the Panthéon, alongside her husband Marcellin Berthelot.

She was the only woman interred in the Panthéon until Marie Curie almost a century later in 1995.

[4] Her husband "lived in complete and happy union with his wife.

[6] Sophie Berthelot died of heart disease in Paris on March 18, 1907, mere hours before her husband's death.

[7] Acceding to the family's wishes and "in homage to her conjugal virtue," the French government passed a special law to permit Sophie Berthelot to be interred alongside her famous husband in the Panthéon.