The Collège de Sorbonne
The name is derived from the Collège de Sorbonne, founded in 1257 by Robert de Sorbon as one of the first significant colleges of the medieval University of Paris. The university as such predates the college by about a century, and minor colleges had been founded already in the late 12th century. During the 16th century, the Sorbonne became a focal point of the intellectual struggle between Catholics and Protestants. The University served as a major stronghold of Catholic conservative attitudes, and as such conducted a bitter struggle against king Francis I's policy of relative tolerance towards the French Protestants - except for a brief period in 1533 when the University was placed under Protestant control.
The Collège de Sorbonne was suppressed during the French revolution, reopened by Napoleon in 1808 and finally closed in 1882. This was only one of the many colleges of the University of Paris that existed until the French revolution. Hastings Rashdall, in The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages (1895), which is still a standard reference on the topic, lists some 70 colleges of the university from the Middle Ages alone; some of these were short-lived and disappeared already before the end of the medieval period, but others were founded in the Early modern period, like the Collège des Quatre-Nations.
Kalidas Nag was doing his research work in Sorbonne University after Paris. Rabindranath wrote him on 19th April. "I did not find you after coming to Paris.Anyway, I shall go to Strass Burg. Now I am going to Spain and hope to start on 26th April. My plan is to go to Italy, Sweetzerland, Germany, Denmark, Holland, Swedenand Norway. But the route with which I shall move has not yet been settled. If anyone of you would have accompanioed me it would have been better. In this tour I must include Strass Burg I shall go back to India at the end of June.
He also wrote to Andrews on 18th April, " From Paris I have decided to go Spain next week - Do you not envy me ?
Having come to know from news Paper that rabindranath Tagore was coming to Spain, some Santanna Rodrigues wrote him from Lisbon, Capital of Spain, on 28th April, "We have taken knowledge about your coming to Madrid with great enthusiasm... We were born at Goa, of unmingled Hindu families, ..We are very sorry that your works may not be translated in Portugueselanguage. We apply for your authorisation in Portugal and Brazil."
Rabindranath wrote to Rathindranath that they were starting for Madrid on 26th April.
But he again wired that he had postpone his visit to Spain, " till the end of my travel plan stop rofound regret so much inconveniences stop Tagore."
On 29th April he went to Strass Burg University and delivered a lecture at the initiative of Syvain Levy.(Sylvain Lévi (March 28, 1863 – October 30, 1935) was an orientalist and indologist. Born in Paris on March 28, 1863, his book Théâtre Indien is an important work on the subject. Lévi also conducted some of the earliest analysis of Tokharian fragments discovered in Western China)
The name is derived from the Collège de Sorbonne, founded in 1257 by Robert de Sorbon as one of the first significant colleges of the medieval University of Paris. The university as such predates the college by about a century, and minor colleges had been founded already in the late 12th century. During the 16th century, the Sorbonne became a focal point of the intellectual struggle between Catholics and Protestants. The University served as a major stronghold of Catholic conservative attitudes, and as such conducted a bitter struggle against king Francis I's policy of relative tolerance towards the French Protestants - except for a brief period in 1533 when the University was placed under Protestant control.
Kalidas Nag was doing his research work in Sorbonne University after Paris. Rabindranath wrote him on 19th April. "I did not find you after coming to Paris.Anyway, I shall go to Strass Burg. Now I am going to Spain and hope to start on 26th April. My plan is to go to Italy, Sweetzerland, Germany, Denmark, Holland, Swedenand Norway. But the route with which I shall move has not yet been settled. If anyone of you would have accompanioed me it would have been better. In this tour I must include Strass Burg I shall go back to India at the end of June.
He also wrote to Andrews on 18th April, " From Paris I have decided to go Spain next week - Do you not envy me ?
Having come to know from news Paper that rabindranath Tagore was coming to Spain, some Santanna Rodrigues wrote him from Lisbon, Capital of Spain, on 28th April, "We have taken knowledge about your coming to Madrid with great enthusiasm... We were born at Goa, of unmingled Hindu families, ..We are very sorry that your works may not be translated in Portugueselanguage. We apply for your authorisation in Portugal and Brazil."
Rabindranath wrote to Rathindranath that they were starting for Madrid on 26th April.
But he again wired that he had postpone his visit to Spain, " till the end of my travel plan stop rofound regret so much inconveniences stop Tagore."
