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

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