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Sorbonne

Common name for the University of Paris, originally a theological institute founded 1253 by Robert de Sorbon, chaplain to Louis IX.

Richelieu ordered the reconstruction of the buildings in 1626, which were again rebuilt 1885. In 1808, the Sorbonne became the seat of the Académie of Paris and of the University of Paris. It is the most prestigious French university.



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replied the peasant, with a purity of accent peculiar to the people of that district and which might have put to shame the cultured denizens of the Sorbonne and the Rue de l'Universite.
Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
Monsieur Robert Darzac, who was at that time about forty years of age, was a professor of physics at the Sorbonne.
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The City had Notre-Dame; the Town, the Louvre and the Hôtel de Ville; the University, the Sorbonne.
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