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Sorbon

Proper noun

Meaning

A commune of the Ardennes department, France

A habitational surname from French, derived from the village.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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[After college] I was going to study at the Sorbon and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing with record companies. Gloria Estefan

Dictionniare historique de Paris, Le Livre de Poche, 2013 Sorbon purchased several houses on Rue Coupe-Gueule (now Rue de la Sorbonne) and made them into lodging for students. Source: Internet

As circumstances permitted, about 1271 De Sorbon added a literary college: this was the Collège de Calvi or the "little Sorbonne". Source: Internet

As the college grew, Sorbon provided a library containing over a thousand volumes by 1292, the largest in the university, and a chapel. Source: Internet

This equality was always maintained with scrupulous care; the Sorbon repeated as an axiom, Omnes nos sumus socii et aequales, and referred to the college as pauperem nostram Sorbonem. Source: Internet

His important work was made possible by the high esteem in which de Sorbon was held at Paris, together with his intellectual brilliance, great generosity, and the assistance of his friends. Source: Internet

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