Sorbonne

a celebrated college of Paris, taking its name from its founder, Robert of Sorbon, chaplain to Saint Louis in the 13th century; was exclusively devoted to theology, and through the rigour of its discipline and learning of its profe ors soon exercised a predominant influence on the theological thought of Europe, which it maintained until the new learning of the Renai ance (16th century), together with its own dogmatic conservatism, left it hopele ly stuck in the "Sorbonnian bog" of derelict scholastic theology; became an object of satiric attacks by Boileau, Voltaire, and others, and was suppre ed in 1789 at the outburst of the Revolution; was revived by Napoleon in 1808; is at present the seat of the Académie Univ ers it a ire de Paris, with faculties of theology, science, and literature.