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- Area:
- The Latin Quarter
- Address:
- 12 rue de la Sorbonne, 5th
- Info:
- (01.40.46. 22.11 /
Website).
Mº Cluny La
Sorbonne/RER
Luxembourg.
Open Tours by appointment. Closed July & Aug.
La Sorbonne
12 rue de la Sorbonne, 5th
Founded in 1253, the University of the Sorbonne was at the centre of the Latin Quarter’s intellectual activity from the Middle Ages until 1968, when it was occupied by students and stormed by the riot police. The authorities split the University of Paris into safer outposts, but the Sorbonne still houses the Faculté des Lettres. Rebuilt by Richelieu, the present buildings date from the late 1800s.
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