the Sorbonne: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Maison de Sorbonne • Sorbonne University • Sorbonne Université
Notable Alumni	Louis de Broglie • Abolhasan Bani-Sadr • Laurent Gbagbo • Henri Tajfel • Jean Piaget • Rached Ghannouchi • Lawrence Ferlinghetti • László Nemes • Agnès Varda • Renata Adler • Louise Bourgeois • ʿAli Shariʿati • Abdou Diouf • George Steiner • Jean-Pierre Serre • Vigdís Finnbogadóttir • Maryse Condé • Richard Howard • Derek Mahon • Shahpur Bakhtiar • Ḥasan al-Turābī • Lee Smith
Related People	Robert de Sorbon

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