Inside the Sorbonne

A tour of the world’s second oldest university

William Sidnam
10 min readOct 1, 2022

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The Sorbonne in October 2020 (Photo by William Sidnam)

Founded in 1150, the University of Paris is often described as the world’s second oldest university still in existence. And with age comes a certain prestige and reverence. For many non-French people, the Sorbonne belongs in a similar category as Oxford, Cambridge and Harvard.

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William Sidnam

New Zealand creative based in Paris. Advertising copywriter, photographer & sometime Top Writer. Follow my Paris metro posters at www.instagram.com/metrotears/