Crossword clues for sorbonne
sorbonne
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560, from Sorbon, place name in the Ardennes. Theological college in Paris founded by Robert de Sorbon (1201-1274), chaplain and confessor of Louis IX. As an academic institution, most influential 16c.-17c., suppressed during the Revolution.
Wikipedia
The Sorbonne is an edifice of the Latin Quarter, in Paris, France, which was the historical house of the former University of Paris. Today, it houses part or all of several higher education and research institutions such as Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris-Sorbonne University, Paris Descartes University, the École Nationale des Chartes and the École pratique des hautes études.
The Sorbonne is a building in the Latin Quarter, Paris (12th century).
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Usage examples of "sorbonne".
Tom, and Billy, redolent of plum pudding and Seven Dials, Gontran, Gaston and Achille, savoring of brasseries and the Sorbonne.
Again for a moment Acadia echoes of the Sorbonne and of Arcadian poesy.
She had passed her baccalaureate, boarded a train, and enrolled at the Sorbonne.
Groups of English and American students in their irreproachable evening attire, groups of French students in someone else's doubtful evening attire, crowds of rustling silken dominoes, herds of crackling muslin dominoes, countless sad-faced Pierrots, fewer sad-faced Capuchins, now and then a slim Mephistopheles, now and then a fat, stolid Turk, 'Arry, Tom, and Billy, redolent of plum pudding and Seven Dials, Gontran, Gaston and Achille, savoring of brasseries and the Sorbonne.
An act was the sum of its contributory parts: not another two-thousand-year-old dictum but a platitude of her Sorbonne tutor.
He had taken his place by turns, as our readers have seen, at the conferences of the theologians in the Sorbonne, at the meetings of the philosophers at the image of Saint-Hilaire, at the disputes of the decretists at the image of Saint-Martin, at the congregations of the physicians at the holy-water font of Notre-Dame.
This eastern Sorbonne had discomfited the Imperial theologians on the great question of image worship.
The Sorbonne had one of the most extensive libraries in all Europe and somewhere in that library were back issues of newspapers.
This eastern Sorbonne had discomfited the Imperial theologians on the great question of image worship.
Was it a combination to extinguish that light, and to bring back, as their best auxiliaries, those enumerated by you, the Sorbonne, the Inquisition, the Index expurgatorius, and the knights of Loyola?
She'd come down from Oxford with all the expected brilliant results in philosophy, politics and economics - or 'Modern Greats' in the jargon of academe - and done all those things that her contemporaries thought smart: she studied Russian at the Sorbonne while perfecting the French accent necessary for upper-class young Englishwomen.
In the same year, because of the awarding of the Nobel prize and the general public recognition, a new chair of physics was created in Sorbonne, and my husband was named as its occupant.
His friendly relations with Pierre Curie dated from the time when they were both preparators at the Sorbonne.