The Sorbonne Companion

In 1257, a royal chaplain founded a modest college for poor theology students in Paris, never imagining his own name would outlast the university it came to represent. This Companion reads the historic Sorbonne building and the Left Bank café culture that grew up around it, and tells the story of how the institution itself was formally dissolved in 1971, split into thirteen numbered universities, while its name simply refused to go along with the paperwork.