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The prestigious Parisian university where Simone de Beauvoir and Simone Weil both took examinations and had their famous philosophical confrontation.

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"While preparing to enter the Normale — the training-college in Paris for professoriates - she was taking the same examinations as myself at the Sorbonne. She intrigued me because of her great reputation for intelligence and her bizarre get-up; she would stroll round the courtyard of the Sorbonne att"
"My favorite moment of the trip was renting a Velib bike and riding to the Panthéon (stopping at Notre-Dame on the way), then grabbing a soda at a convenience store and drinking it while watching the Sorbonne law school students having lunch on the benches in the plaza. As a huge francophile, the mom"
Some notes from my recent trip to Paris as a Latin American · u/meogeul347 · ↑58 · 2025-07-26
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