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Sor⋅bonne

  [sawr-bon, -buhn; Fr. sawr-bawn]
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–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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Word Origin & History

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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