The Collège de Calvi or Calvi or Little Sorbonne, is a

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of the

University of Paris , image_name = Coat of arms of the University of Paris.svg , image_size = 150px , caption = Coat of Arms , latin_name = Universitas magistrorum et scholarium Parisiensis , motto = ''Hic et ubique terrarum'' (Latin) , mottoeng = Here and a ...

. The college was founded by

Robert de Sorbon Robert de Sorbon (; 9 October 1201 – 15 August 1274) was a French theologian, the chaplain of Louis IX of France, and founder of the Sorbonne college in Paris. Biography Born into a poor family in Sorbon, in what is now the Ardennes ''dépa ...

in 1271 and it was part of the

College of Sorbonne 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. With the rest of the Paris colleges, ...

. It was a

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college where students learned the rudiments of

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It was merged with the collège des Dix-Huit ( en, College of Eighteen; :fr:Collège des Dix-Huit). The college, together with the Sorbonne, was suppressed by decree of 5 April 1792, after the

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, and restored in 1808 by

Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader who ...

. Destroyed during the reconstruction of the College of Sorbonne from 1884 until 1889, it occupied the place of the church.

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