Talk:College of Sorbonne
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Given that the Sorbonne, in all of its permutations and subdivisions, has produced some of the West's greatest thinkers, scientists, authors, and the like, why does one not indicate this in a more forthright manner in the article? After all, the articles on the Oxford and Cambridge institutions use adjectival clauses to indicate their importance and prestige. With Nobel prize winners in faculty and from its student body, surely the Sorbonne deserves a more proactive adjective than the mere, "historic," as in "historic Université de Paris." Please, with a group of students and faculty that range from Mdme Curie to de Beauvoir, Fanon to Trudeau, Durkheim, to Derrida, the Sorbonne deserves something a bit more rousing than "historic."
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M.Mason, Columbia University, 1997
- The reason is that you have not yet written that part of the article. Go ahead! / up◦land 10:06, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
It is now distributed in several separate universities.
- Meaning what exactly? Multiple campuses of one institution? Independent institutions that simply have a common name slapped on them? ...? --Brion
- The University of Paris was split in the early 1970s into several universities. There are now 13 Universities of Paris: University Paris I to University Paris XIII. The Sorbonne main campus is now split for use by some of these, some of which carry the "Sorbonne" as part of their name. The campus also has the Rector's offices. David.Monniaux 20:04, 2 May 2004 (UTC)
It was originally created for the use of 20 theology students in 1257 as Collège de Sorbonne by Robert de Sorbon (1201-1274), a chaplain and confessor to King Louis IX of France. It quickly built a prodigious reputation as a center for learning, and by the 13th century there were as many as twenty thousand foreign students resident in the city, making Paris the capital of knowledge of the Western world. Today, foreign students still make up a significant part of its campus.
Since a date midway through the 13th century (1257) is already mentioned in the paragraph, should 'by the 13th century' be changed to 'by the end of the 13th century', or some other date? Ground 11:22, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)