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In 1854, a church and convent were built by Father Peter La Cour near the town's present site. The town began forming in 1878 when Charles Lander Cleveland, a local judge, donated 63.6 acres (257,000 m 2) of land to the Houston East & West Texas Railway (now part of the Union Pacific Railroad) for use as a stop, requesting that the town be named for him.
It is also the name of a building in the Latin Quarter of Paris which from 1253 onwards housed the College of Sorbonne, part of one of the first universities in the Western world, later renamed University of Paris and commonly known as "the Sorbonne". The Sorbonne building and the “La Sorbonne” trademark are owned by the Chancellerie des ...
The Latin Quarter is home to many academic institutions, including Sorbonne University and the Panthéon-Sorbonne University in the Sorbonne historical building. It is also home to the largest university libraries in Paris, such as the Sainte-Geneviève Library, the Sorbonne Library, the Sainte-Barbe Library, the Assas Law Library and the Cujas Law Library.
The College of Sorbonne (French: Collège de Sorbonne) was a theological college of the University of Paris, founded in 1253 (confirmed in 1257) by Robert de Sorbon (1201–1274), after whom it was named. [1] The Sorbonne was disestablished by decree of 5 April 1792, after the French Revolution, along with the other Paris colleges. It was ...
Sorbonne may refer to: Sorbonne (building) , historic building in Paris, which housed the University of Paris and is now shared among multiple universities. Sorbonne Chapel
Chapel of the main Sorbonne building. Sorbonne University (French: Sorbonne Université) is a public research university located in Paris, France. The institution's legacy reaches back to the Middle Ages in 1257 when Sorbonne College was established by Robert de Sorbon as a constituent college of the University of Paris, one of the first universities in Europe.
Entrance of the main building of the Sorbonne Nouvelle University, built in by Christian de Portzamparc, Nation Campus, Paris. The Crous de Paris ( Centre régional des œuvres universitaires et scolaires ) is the organisation responsible for both student accommodation and refectories in Paris.
It has been dubbed "the most curious building in Paris". [2] It is a campus of the universities of Paris. The building is currently occupied by the Art and Archeology Department of the Sorbonne University Faculty of Arts and Humanities and the Sorbonne School of Art History and Archaeology, a department of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. [3]