Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
DON'T MISS
Tapestries
Hôtel de Cluny
Frigidarium
Notre Dame statuary
PRACTICALITIES
6 place Paul Painlevé, 5e
adult/child €8/free
9.15am-5.45pm Wed-Mon
Cluny-La Sorbonne
SIGHTS
UNIVERSITY
SORBONNE
The crème de la crème of academia flock to this distinguished university, one of the world's
most famous. Today, 'La Sorbonne' embraces most of the 13 autonomous universities -
35,500-odd students in all - created when the University of Paris was reorganised after the
student protests of 1968. Until 2015, when an ambitious, 10-year modernisation program
costing €45 million reaches completion, parts of the complex will be under renovation. Vis-
itors are not permitted to enter.
The original Sorbonne was founded in 1253 by Robert de Sorbon, confessor to Louis IX,
as a college for 16 impoverished theology students; soon after it grew into a powerful body
with its own government and laws.
