Jacques Maritain Center
The College of the Sorbonne, the first founded in the University of Paris, dated from 1253, St. Thomas's time. It presupposed the degree in Arts, and presented for degrees in Theology only. There is an interesting and amusing account of the Sorbonne at the end of the eighteenth century by a Licentiate of the same, an émigré Priest, Mémoires de l'Abbé Baston.