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Sorbonne

(French sɔrbɔn)
n
(Placename) 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
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Sor•bonne

(sɔrˈbɒn, -ˈbʌn; Fr. sɔrˈbɔn)

n.
the seat of the faculties of arts and letters of the University of Paris.
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Noun1.Sorbonne - a university in ParisSorbonne - a university in Paris; intellectual center of France
capital of France, City of Light, French capital, Paris - the capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce
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"What's your pleasure, gentlemen?" 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.
Monsieur Robert Darzac, who was at that time about forty years of age, was a professor of physics at the Sorbonne. He was intimately acquainted with the Stangersons, and, after an assiduous seven years' courtship of the daughter, had been on the point of marrying her.
The City had Notre-Dame; the Town, the Louvre and the Hôtel de Ville; the University, the Sorbonne. The Town had the markets (Halles); the city, the Hospital; the University, the Pré-aux-Clercs.
Those which first caught the eye were the Bernardins, with their three bell towers; Sainte-Geneviève, whose square tower, which still exists, makes us regret the rest; the Sorbonne, half college, half monastery, of which so admirable a nave survives; the fine quadrilateral cloister of the Mathurins; its neighbor, the cloister of Saint-Benoit, within whose walls they have had time to cobble up a theatre, between the seventh and eighth editions of this book; the Cordeliers, with their three enormous adjacent gables; the Augustins, whose graceful spire formed, after the Tour de Nesle, the second denticulation on this side of Paris, starting from the west.
Nevertheless, Voltaire said of this city, that "before Louis XIV., it possessed but four fine monuments": the dome of the Sorbonne, the Val-de-Grâce, the modern Louvre, and I know not what the fourth was--the Luxembourg, perhaps.
Paris is Talma, la Duchenois, Potier, the Sorbonne, the boulevards," and noticing that his conclusion was weaker than what had gone before, he added quickly: "There is only one Paris in the world.
"That would be true if we knew what was really the will of God," replied the former prior of the Sorbonne. "Observe, my daughter, that you put in an IF."
A Qatari student who used to study in the UAE discussed the extent of her suffering after she was expelled arbitrarily from the Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi following the blockade imposed on Qatar in June 2017.
QNA Doha A Qatari student who was earlier studying in the UAE, described on Thursday the extent of her suffering after she was expelled arbitrarily from the Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi following the blockade imposed on Qatar in June, 2017.
Researchers from CNRS, the Sorbonne Universite, and universities Paris Diderot and Paris 13, have shown substantial degradation of these nanoparticles, followed in certain cases by the cells "re-magnetizing." This phenomenon is the sign of biosynthesis of new magnetic nanoparticles from iron released in the intracellular medium by the degradation of the first nanoparticles.
Summary: Collection of archives, photographs and documents never seen by public to be displayed at Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi until October 28