Sorbonne

[ sawr-bon, -buhn; French sawr-bawn ]

noun

1. the seat of the faculties of arts and letters of the University of Paris.
2. a theological college founded in Paris in 1253 by Robert de Sorbon, suppressed in 1792, and ceasing to exist about 1850.

Sorbonne

/ sɔrbɔn /

noun

1. the Sorbonne
   a part of the University of Paris containing the faculties of science and literature: founded in 1253 by Robert de Sorbon as a theological college; given to the university in 1808

Example Sentences

The model will be too big and too slow to be useful to companies, says Karën Fort, an associate professor at the Sorbonne.

From MIT Technology Review

Not really, but the day I saw a stack of my books in a window of the Sorbonne comes close.

From The Daily Beast

But Hala Shoukair, 53, had no hangups sketching from models at the Sorbonne in Paris, during the 1970s.

From The Daily Beast

While Roosevelt praised action and risk-taking in his Sorbonne speech, he also counseled elevating politics itself.

From The Daily Beast

At the latter date all artists were obliged to vacate the Sorbonne ateliers to make room for some new department of instruction.

From Project Gutenberg

At Sorbonne a chair of comparative legislation was created for him.

From Project Gutenberg

It was only by chance that I came upon this organization one day in July, walking home from the Sorbonne.

From Project Gutenberg

The greater part are studying French in the Sorbonne, though a few are devoting their time to the study of painting and music.

From Project Gutenberg

The Sorbonne declared, in the sixteenth century, that it was heretical to say that heretics ought not to be burned.

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