Sorbonne

Speech parts

1. Sorbonne - Noun

2. Sorbonne - Proper noun

Meaning

a university in Paris; intellectual center of France

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Phrases with the word

Examples

I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally. John Foster Dulles

Buffon's work created a great furore, of course. The theologians at the Sorbonne condemned him, and Buffon dutifully retracted. But he wasn't sincere: ‘It is better to be humble than hanged. Stephen Baxter

It was the business of the Sorbonne doctors to discuss, of the pope to decide, and of a mathematician to go straight to heaven in a perpendicular line. Jacques Ozanam

They will get it straight one day at the Sorbonne. We shall return at twilight from the lecture Pleased that the irrational is rational,Until flicked by feeling, in a gildered street, I call you by name, my green, my fluent mundo. Wallace Stevens

I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted. Françoise Sagan

First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law. Claude Chabrol

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