La Sorbonne

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Sorbonne - an architectural and historical monument, the University of Paris in the center of the capital of France is located in Paris's Latin Quarter is the property goroda.Nazvanie Sorbonne comes from the theologian Robert de Sorbon, the confessor of King St. Louis IX, who founded the city in the XIII century, a theological college - College of Sorbonne, later entered the University of Paris. The term contiguity was moved to the university itself, and stayed with him until today dnya.Barochny façade belongs to the Church of the Sorbonne - the Chapel of St. Ursula Sorbonne its construction was completed in 1642. Since the adoption of the law on the separation of religion and state in 1905, the building is fit for official receptions and vystavok.V 1878 on the square in front of the chapel was a monument to Auguste Comte, French philosopher, podonachalniku positivism, the founder of sociology as an independent science.