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Sor·bonne    Audio Help   [sawr-bon, -buhn; Fr. sawr-bawn] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.the seat of the faculties of arts and letters of the University of Paris.
2.a theological college founded in Paris in 1253 by Robert de Sorbon, suppressed in 1792, and ceasing to exist about 1850.
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Sorbonne 
1560, from Sorbon, place name in the Ardennes. Theological college in Paris founded early 13c. by Robert de Sorbon (b.1201), chaplain and confessor of Louis IX.

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sorbonne

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a university in Paris; intellectual center of France [syn: Paris University] 

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