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75 unusual facts about Sorbonne


A Certain Smile

The novel is about Dominique, a bored twenty-year-old law student at the Sorbonne in mid-1950s Paris.

Abdel Rahman Badawi

Badawi described leaving Nasser's Egypt to teach in the Sorbonne in 1967 as escaping "the big jail".

Adamou Idé

A native speaker of the Zarma language, Idé left his home in Niamey to study public administration in France, receiving degrees from The Sorbonne (Université de Paris I) and the Institut international d'administration publique in Paris, serving as an official in the Government of Niger and in international organizations.

Ahmed Benchemsi

He later received an M.A in Development Economics from the Sorbonne, and an MPhil in Political Science from Paris’ Institut d’Etudes Politiques, aka Sciences Po.

Albert Spaier

Studying at the Sorbonne, he volunteered to fight for the French at the outset of World War I, and became a French citizen soon afterwards.

Alfonso Rangel Guerra

From 1958 to 1959, he had a scholarship which enabled him to study French literature at the Instituto Francés de América Latina and the Sorbonne.

Amnon Barzel

Barzel earned his post-graduate degree at the University La Sorbonne in Paris, France, in Art History.

André Almuró

In 1973, Almuró became a teacher at Paris' Sorbonne University (UFR d’Arts Plastiques, Faculté Paris I Sorbonne).

André Leroi-Gourhan

In 1956 he succeeded Marcel Griaule at the Sorbonne, and from 1969 until 1982 he was a professor at the Collège de France.

Antoine de Margerie

In order to reassure them, de Margerie takes up medical studies, as well as pursuing a humanities degree and taking courses at the École du Louvre and the Intitut d'Art et d'Archéologie at the Sorbonne.

Antonio Cuauhtémoc García Amor

Other studies: Include a diploma from the University of Paris (Sorbonne) in French Language and French Civilization (1975).

Ataol Behramoğlu

In 1984, he began in Paris to participate in the work of Sorbonne’s National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations, at the Center for Comparative Poetry.

Avraham Heffner

After his IDF service, he studied French literature at the Sorbonne, Paris.

Bakhtiar Amin

He went to university in Sweden and the Sorbonne in France, where he received a master’s degree in international affairs and a doctorate in political geography.

Behnam Afas

He completed his higher studies in the University of Sorbonne – France and was awarded the D.E.A. on his studies about the role of Iraqi Christians in the renaissance of Iraq during the 19th Century.

Bernadette Allen

She studied abroad for a year in 1977, earning a Certificate in French Civilization from the Sorbonne in Paris.

Bernard Salome

An economist by training, Dr. Salomé received his doctorate in Economic Development from Université Paris Sorbonne in 1984.

Cinéma du Panthéon

Opened in 1907 on the site of a gymnasium next to the Sorbonne, the Cinéma du Panthéon's single screen has been in daily service since.

Constance Mayer

After the artist Prud'hon had separated from his wife, the Emperor Napoleon gave him an apartment in the Sorbonne.

Daniel Thorner

Due to desire to return to a university and partially due to economic reasons, he left India in 1962 after spending ten years, to take up an academic position at Sorbonne.

David S. Wall

He completed a partnership with Transcrime (Università Cattolica del sacro Cuore of Milan and the University of Trento) and the CNRS, (Sorbonne, Paris) looking at "Public and Private Partnerships for Reducing Counterfeiting of Fashion Apparels and Accessories" as part of the EU Aegis Programme Framework 6.

David Seyfort Ruegg

He received a second doctorate in linguistics from the Sorbonne in Paris, where his thesis was "La théorie du tathâgatagarbha et du gotra : études sur la sotériologie et la gnoséologie du bouddhisme" ("The Theory of Gotra and Tathâgatagarbha: A Study of the Soteriology and Gnoseology of Buddhism"), with a second half thesis on Bu Rin chen grub's approach to tathâgatagarbha.

Don Foresta

A graduate of the University of Buffalo, the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Foresta also holds a doctorate degree from the Sorbonne in Information Science.

Emmanuel Villaume

He continued his studies in Paris at Khâgne and the Sorbonne where he studied literature, philosophy and musicology.

Florence Meyer Blumenthal

In 1925, Blumenthal moved to Paris with her husband, later donating to the Children’s Hospital in Paris the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Sorbonne in Paris.

Francis Kirwan

He was consecrated Bishop of Killala in May 1645 at the church of Saint Lazare, Paris; the ceremony was attended by thirteen bishops, fifteen abbots and thirty doctors of the Sorbonne.

François Girardon

His Tomb of Richelieu (church of the Sorbonne) was saved from destruction by Alexandre Lenoir, who received a bayonet thrust in protecting the head of the cardinal from mutilation.

Henri Maspero

During the following years he replaced Marcel Granet for the chair of Chinese civilisation at the Sorbonne, directed the department of Chinese religions at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, and was selected to be a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres.

Henry IV of France's succession

For two years, Henry had been recognised by many in the French church, and French theologians at the Sorbonne had confirmed the Archbishop of Bourges's lifting of Henry's excommunication.

Herbert Southworth

Two years before its publication, and on the advice of the French historian, Pierre Vilar, the manuscript had been successfully presented by Southworth as his doctoral thesis at the Sorbonne.

Hervé Fischer

Hervé Fischer taught sociology of communication and culture at the Sorbonne.

Ivar Lissner

He studied languages, history, anthropology, and law at Greifswald, Berlin, Göttingen, Erlangen, Lyon (1931–1932), and at the Sorbonne in Paris.

J. I. Wedgwood

Wedgwood now enrolled as a doctoral candidate at the Sorbonne, combining his studies with experiments at the works of a celebrated organ builder and activities at Russian Orthodox and Old Catholic churches.

Jackie Duffin

Sorbonne, History and Philosophy of Science (PhD)
1985 Diplôme de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, IV Section, Paris
1983 D.E.A.Paris-I-Sorbonne, France
1979 F.R.C.P.(C) Internal medicine
1979 F.R.C.P.(C) Hematology
1979 C.S.P.Q. Hématologie
1974 M.D. University of Toronto

Jana Boková

Boková was born in Prague, but left Czechoslovakia in August 1968 to attend a conference of art students in Austria, then emigrated to Paris, France to study at the Sorbonne.

Jean-Julien Chervier

After studying Art Sciences at the Sorbonne, Jean-Julien Chervier produced a radio program devoted to the cinema on Aligre FM.

Jessie White Mario

Unlike almost all middle-class girls growing up in Victorian England, Jessie received an excellent education culminating in studying philosophy with Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais at the Sorbonne in Paris between 1852 and 1854.

John Gunther Dean

He received his doctorate in law from the Sorbonne (1949), and returned to Harvard again to obtain a graduate degree in international relations (M.A., 1950).

Jón Þorláksson

One of his sisters, Björg Þorláksdóttir, was for example the first Icelandic woman to receive a doctorate, from the Sorbonne in 1926.

Jonathan Dawson

A remarkable number of his students are now active in Universities from the Sorbonne to UCLA and work in the film industry worldwide.

Julia Danzas

After graduating from high school in 1895, Julia Danzas moved to Paris and came to Sorbonne, where she studied philosophy and psychology.

Kenneth J. Gergen

At various intervals he served as visiting professor at the University of Heidelberg, the University of Marburg, the Sorbonne, the University of Rome, Kyoto University, and Adolfo Ibanez University.

Kurt Maetzig

He also studied sociology, psychology and law for a year at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Léon Vaudoyer

In 1852 he was given responsibility for reconstructing the Sorbonne (unrealized), and also for designing the polychrome Cathédrale Sainte-Marie-Majeure in Marseilles.

Louise Beaudoin

Beaudoin earned a master's degree in history from Université Laval and a master's degree in sociology at the Sorbonne.

Luise Druke

from Brussels University and a M.A. in Economics, Finance and Management from Webster University, St. Louis, a Diploma from Sorbonne, License d'enseignement from Paris VIII University and a M.A. from the European Institute of High International Studies, University of Nice in European Studies.

Manuel Delgado Ruiz

He continued his graduate studies at the Religious Sciences department of the École Pratique des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne.

Martha Baillie

She studied history, French and Russian at the University of Edinburgh, and completed her studies at the Sorbonne, Paris and the University of Toronto.

Mattias Kumm

Kumm holds a JSD from Harvard Law School and has pursued studies in law, philosophy and political sciences at the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and Harvard University.

Maxence Caron

He is agrégé in Philosophy (in 1999), docteur ès Lettres (at Sorbonne in 2003 with Rémi Brague as a thesis director.

Michel Suret-Canale

After his secondary education at the Lycée Claude Bernard in Paris, Michel enrolled at the University of Arts and Sciences of Art, Department of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, eventually earning a doctorate in Arts and Sciences of Art with honors by unanimous decision of the jury.

Mikhail Gavrilov

After that he emigrated to Romania, and then moved to France, graduated from the Sorbonne in Paris. Gavrilov taught at the Russian school in Paris and Saint George boarding in Meudon, led the research and education activities at the Institut Catholique de Paris.

Nicolas de Lenfent

He has returned to the village because he is in disgrace: he was sent to Paris to study law at the Sorbonne, but instead fell in love with the violin, abandoned his studies and sold his textbooks to take lessons from Mozart.

Nikola Petkov

He graduated from the 1st Sofia Boys High School in 1910 and after that studied law and politics at the Sorbonne, Paris.

Olivier Weber

Olivier Weber, born in 1958 in Montluçon, studied economics and anthropology at the University of San Francisco, University of Paris Sorbonne, University of Nice (Ph.D.) and at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, INALCO).

Patrick Gagnon

Gagnon holds a degree in Political Science from McGill University and pursued his studies in literature and international politics at the Sorbonne.

Paul Hallez

He later defended his thesis at the Sorbonne with an award winning treatise on Turbellaria titled Contributions à l'histoire naturelle des turbellariés.

René Zazzo

After obtaining a Doctorate of Letters in the Sorbonne (1933-1933), on the advice of Meyerson and of Henri Wallon, he obtained a grant to study in the laboratory of Gesell at Yale University, where he specialized in child psychology.

Richelieu, Indre-et-Loire

He engaged the architect Jacques Lemercier, who was already responsible for the Sorbonne and the Cardinal's hôtel in Paris, the Palais Cardinal (now the Palais-Royal).

Ronald Verlin Cassill

In 1949 he briefly served as an instructor at the University's Writer's Workshop before attending the Sorbonne in 1952 for a year as a Fulbright Fellow, studying comparative literature.

Rubén Marshall Tikalova

In France he had the opportunity to study French language and civilization at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Safety coffin

Count Michel de Karnice-Karnicki, a chamberlain to the Tsar of Russia, patented his own safety coffin, called Le Karnice, in 1897 and demonstrated it at the Sorbonne the following year.

Sheldon Bach

Born in 1925, he served in the European Theatre of Operations during World War II, then lived in Paris where he studied at the Sorbonne.

Stephen Desberg

Stephen Desberg was born in Brussels in 1954 as the third child of an American lawyer from Cleveland and a French mother who taught him French at the Sorbonne after the Liberation of Paris.

Suze Yalof Schwartz

Yalof Schwartz received a BA degree in Fine Arts and French from Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts and studied her junior year at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Tendon, Vosges

Educated at the collège de Saint-Claude, in Toul, he studied philosophy and theology in the Saint-Dié-des-Vosges Catholic seminary, then was sent to the Sorbonne by his bishop, where he received the grade of doctor.

The Coronation of Napoleon

Jacques-Louis David started work on 21 December 1805 in the former chapel of the College of Cluny, near the Sorbonne, which served as a workshop.

The Naughty Princess

He has been away in Paris for ten years, studying hard at the Sorbonne.

Thierry Cassuto

He studied at Université de la Sorbonne in Paris and at Boston University, where he graduated with a Master of Science in Broadcasting.

Toulouse 1 University Capitole

Toulouse 1 University Capitole was the second university created in France in 1229 after the Sorbonne was founded (around the year 1200).

Ulli Beier

In 1956, after visiting the First Congress of Negro Artists and Writers in Paris organized by Présence Africaine at the Sorbonne, Ulli Beier returned to Ibadan with more ideas.

Vicar Apostolic of the London District

It was only in 1685 that a successor was appointed by Rome, in the person of John Leyburn, a Doctor of Divinity of the Sorbonne and a former President of the English College at Douai, who was consecrated bishop in Rome on 9 September 1685.

Viktor Bunyakovsky

In 1820, he joined the count's son in traveling to a university in Coburg and subsequently to the Sorbonne in Paris to study mathematics.

Yves Gérard

From 1955 to 1956 he studied at the Sorbonne under composer, musicologist and theoretician Jacques Chailley.

Zbigniew Bieńkowski

Bieńkowski received a one year scholarship from the Sorbonne and moved to Paris in 1938.


Ahmed Abdel Muti Hijazi

In France he worked as a professor of Arabic poetry at the Paris 8 University and the new Sorbonne University.

Aymeric Chauprade

Aymeric Chauprade co-organized with Jacques Frémeaux and Philippe Evanno in February 2013 a conference at the Sorbonne (University of Paris IV), entitled Menaces en Afrique du Nord et au Sahel et sécurité globale de l'Europe (Threats in North Africa and in the Sahel and overall security of Europe), the proceedings of which were published in April 2013 Ellipses Editions.

Bartolomeo Gastaldi

He spent the years 1849–52 in Paris taking courses at the Ecole des Mines, the Jardin des Plantes, the Collège de France and the Sorbonne.

Carol Frost

Frost was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, and later graduated from the State University of Oneonta and Syracuse University after studying at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Cornelius Jakhelln

Cornelius has a master's degree in philosophie/lettres modernes from University of Paris IV: Paris-Sorbonne and a master's degree in the philosophy of cognitive science with a minor in aesthetics from the University of Sussex.

David C. Turnley

A fluent speaker of French and Spanish, he is a graduate of the University of Michigan, and has studied at the Sorbonne and Harvard University.

Edmond Aman-Jean

Aman-Jean established his reputation primarily for his portraits, especially of female subjects; he was also noted for his murals in public and official buildings, including the Sorbonne.

Emmanuel Mounier

Mounier, who was the child of peasants, was a brilliant scholar at the Sorbonne.

Fanta Régina Nacro

She received her first degree in audiovisual science and techniques from INAFEC in 1986 and also earned a Master’s Degree in Film and Audiovisual Studies at the Sorbonne.

Ferdinand Brunetière

In 1886 Brunetière was appointed professor of French language and literature at the École Normale, a singular honour for one who had not passed through the academic mill; and later he presided with distinction over various conferences at the Sorbonne and elsewhere.

Gaston Bachelard

He was a professor at Dijon from 1930 to 1940 and then became the inaugural chair in history and philosophy of the sciences at the Sorbonne.

Guillemette Andreu

After studying history, Andreu specialized in Egyptology (hieroglyphs, hieratic, Coptic) and produced a thesis on the law and order in Ancient Egypt at Sorbonne in 1978 under the direction of Professor Jean Leclant.

Guy Quaden

In 1972, he graduated at the Ecole pratique des hautes études of the Sorbonne (Paris, France), in economic and social sciences.

Guy-Marie Bagnard

He studied at the little seminary of Rimont, at the academic Seminary of Lyon (with the Catholic University of Lyon), at the Catholic Institut of Paris, and finally, at the Sorbonne University.

Harold Lawton

After the war, he completed a Master's degree in French at the University of Wales in Bangor, and received a doctorate in Latin and French from the Sorbonne in 1926.

Javivi

He worked as a social worker in Madrid Council and he later went back to Paris where he received a Ph.D degree in Sorbonne.

Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume

The Musée du Luxembourg has his Anacreon (1852), Faucheur (1855), and the marble bust of Mgr Darboy; the Versailles Museum the portrait of Thiers; the Sorbonne Library the marble bust of Victor le Clerc, doyen de la faculté des lettres.

Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant

Prominent examples include the great plafond in the Hôtel de Ville, Paris, entitled Paris Convening the World; his paintings in the New Sorbonne, representing Literature, The Sciences, and the Academy of Paris; and the plafond of the Opéra Comique theatre.

Jemima West

She attended the Sorbonne and graduated in History of Art while taking acting classes in the evening.

Jowan Le Besco

A former pupil of Lycée Charlemagne and Lycée Victor Hugo in Paris, two secondary schools renowned for their academic excellence, Jowan started cinema studies at the Paris Sorbonne University of Jussieu, during which he directed a large number of short films.

Kenneth E. Tyler

Originally Tyler had planned further studies at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Lawrence Taub

Instead he went to the Sorbonne (University of Paris) to earn a certificate to teach French.

Maurice Lebel

In 1931, he received a Diplôme d'Études Supérieures in language and classical literature from the Sorbonne.

Michel Luc

From 1945, on, he studied biology in Paris at the Sorbonne, where he attended classes delivered by biologists such as Georges Mangenot in Botany and Pierre-Paul Grassé in Zoology.

Mr. John

Born John Pico Harberger in Munich, Germany, Mr. John studied medicine at University of Lucerne, and art at the Sorbonne.

Nahapet Rusinian

While in Paris, Rusinian audited courses on literature and philosophy at the Sorbonne, and was influenced by the ideas of Lamartine, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Montesquieu, Victor Hugo, and other political philosophers.

Osip Mandelstam

In April 1908, Mandelstam decided to enter the Sorbonne in Paris to study literature and philosophy, but he left the following year to attend the University of Heidelberg in Germany.

Philippe Le Corbeiller

He was trained as an engineer at the École Polytechnique (entering class of 1910), served in the French Signal Corps during World War I, worked on telegraph and radio systems, and in 1926 received a doctorate in mathematics from the Sorbonne, having written a thesis on indefinite quadratic forms under the supervision of Charles Émile Picard.

Schahan Berberian

The first job of the fifteen-year-old young man was to teach literature and natural sciences at his alma mater but in 1908, he left for Paris where he studied at the Sorbonne and the Collège de France, taking classes in philosophy and metaphysics with Henri Bergson, psychology with Georges Dumas and sociology with Émile Durkheim, thus receiving a thorough education in the liberal arts and obtaining a diploma to teach philosophy.

Scott Symons

Born into a wealthy family, he attended a number of private schools, the University of Toronto, Cambridge University and the Sorbonne.

Svetozar Vlajković

In 1971, Svetozar got a scholarship to study theatre researches at Sorbonne in Paris.

Zazou

The two most important meeting places of the Zazous were the terrace of the Pam Pam cafe on the Champs-Élysées and the Boul’Mich (the Boulevard Saint-Michel near the Sorbonne).