Sorbonne - The University That Isn't
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- Let's wander into the Sorbonne and maybe we can pick up an education along the way =D Help me make better videos at / jayswanson and then find me on the internet in all of the usual spots:
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My name is Jay Swanson - I'm an American writer living in Paris on an artist visa and hoping to make the city of light my home base - at least for the foreseeable future. I write science-fiction and fantasy, vlogged daily for 3+ years, and love pizza a little too much.
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Reminds me of the summer of 1964. Three of my buddies and I were traveling Europe in a rented Opel. Europe on $5 a Day! We got rooms on the left bank and ate street food. Not having luck with the French ladies, we headed to the Sorbonne. Met some American girls studying at the Sorbonne. They showed us around Paris for the next couple of days. Said goodbye and headed for Amsterdam. And that is another story!
Interesting life you have!
@@unpeudevin3837 Very! Just celebrated my 80th birthday this month!
@@lewtoncole Happy Belated Birthday!!!
Getting to know Paris in the 60's must've been awesome! Please share more, if you will :)
i wish i could have grown up in that time. the digital era today has made it much more intimidating and unnatural to connect with people on the street spontaneously
this series is AWESOME feels like im there and having my own private tour of paris
piece by piece
again AWESOME jay
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The light on a sunny afternoon in St. Etienne du Mont is stunning. My favorite as well.
It's amazing
My favorite so far! My wife and I stayed two weeks in the apartment directly above the Shakespeare and Company Café two years ago for our 30th anniversary. Got to know that neighborhood really well. The park next to the L'eglise Saint Julien le Pauvre is a fantastic place to sit and have a cup of coffee (when there's no leaf blowing!). It's also the home to the oldest tree in Paris. Thanks for the memories!
I attended the Cours de Civilization Francaise at the Sorbonne in 1977. It was a program for foreign students. An amazing experience. Even as a student, there were many places that were off limits. And classes were scattered throughout the Latin Quarter.
In a time that international travel is restricted you are making it happen for all of us. Thanks for your dedication(videos) and hopefully we will meet one of these days.
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Saint-Étienne-du-Mont is were the the steps on the side of the church.. The steps were Midnight in Paris was filmed ..where he came every night at midnight to be Swept Away into a different era...Great movie in paris...
Coffee at Shakespeare and Company right across from Notre Dame. I’m breathless...I can not wait to book my ticket back. Thank you Jay - another sublime, and entertaining video!!!
L'eglise Saint Julien le Pauvre is an Eastern Catholic church (Melkite Greek Cathokic church) they belong to the Vatican in Rome but they have kept the byzantine rite of the greek orthodox church thats why the hymns that you hear on the video are sung in the greek language.
@JaySwanson thank you for the lovely tour and generally for the whole series of your tour in Paris!
As a Greek American I truly enjoyed the Greek Orthodox church.
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I have to say, I adore the close ups and panning shots you do of the buildings you're describing, to see many of the architectural details like this it's amazing
St. Etienne--- fantastic church and one of my favorites-- I'm a church nerd. (St Eustache has a fabulous organist-- even has free recitals during the week). Keep up the great work. Enjoying it. Cheers.
Ahhh, St Eustache is our favorite church in Paris. The organist (and assistant organists) are out of this world. The mini concert after Sunday services are legendary amongst musicians and music historians.
True about Sorbonne University: czcams.com/video/MYOR5I0T7Zc/video.html
6:16 oh man! Glorious!
Loving this series. The musee de Cluny is one my favorites!! Great job Jay. I saw more with you here than when I stayed in that area. Thank you. Cheers!! 😎
I really enjoy this series Jay! It feels like I'm exploring the city with you! So much so to see and learn ! Awesome series.
Fascinating. This video was a departure from your past videos. Nice to see you continue to evolve.
I went to the Sorbonne as an exchange student for 3 years. To see where I am today, after going to school in Paris is sad. Stuck in a dead end job, watching my life go by.........
The church choir was lovely! So glad you went back in! Luving this exploration series! Stay safe & healthy!
These videos are so full of immedeate Paris feel, a good substitute in these strange times. Musee de Cluny is awesome, the tapisseries alone is worth a visit and then go down and see the roman baths, just great.
Thanks, Jay for your videos this week. A window into Paris with my morning coffee. The series is great!
I’m just loving these strolls narrated by you. Great idea to take us through the quarters.
I feel like I’m gaining a new level of intimacy with this beloved city.
That's my personal goal from the whole experience =D
This is so much fun. Thank you for this series. Can't wait to visit Paris again
These vlogs are superb! Thoroughly enjoying the series . thnx Jay for sharing! So Moody feel and loving the music selection as well.
Oh boy, I love this series. I love your sense of humor also. Thanks for the tour.
In the 3.5 years I've been watching, with all due respect your sense of personal style (clothing) has really adapted to the modern/European vibe of Paris and it looks real good!
Excellent. Two new places added to my list to visit next year. Love the jazzy music. Thank you!
WoW Jay!! Outstanding series of videos, especially like this one. So many memories of past visits to Paris.
Amazing!, the music in the chapel was so beautiful I’m really enjoy seen this 80 in 8....take care...
Love this! Melbourne is still in lockdown. Using Apple TV to watch this on our 75”. I’m right there with you. Great quality. Excited.
Jay, these are fantastic! Loving this series
I'm loving this series Jay.. Hope that you are doing well stay safe
My favorite small church for many reasons is Église Saint Julien-Le-Pauvre, so thank you so much for going in. I’ve got some great memories of Shakespeare and Company as well as the area near the Sorbonne. There’s a small rock and mineral museum in the area that’s kind of fun to see.
Love this series!! Watch it in the mornings to start my day!!
And I repeat, loving this series of exploring. Wish the leaf blower had not been in the little park next to Shakespeare and Company and you could’ve peaked inside the park. It is small but so lovely, lot of history. Now I’ll tell you a little secret - last time I was in Paris I brought a tablespoon of dirt from Oklahoma and early one morning I was in that park dug a little hole and got a tablespoon of Paris dirt and filled the hole with my Oklahoma dirt. So now part of me is in Paris and part of Paris is in a little bottle on my kitchen windowsill and I look at it every day and smile. Thanks for the memories Jay! 😁
Wonderful series, wait every day for it!
Really enjoying this series, Jay! When I was visiting Paris this time last year, I stayed at a hotel in this quarter! I recommend visiting the Musee de Cluny, we popped in for an afternoon visit. Although it's main showstopper piece was under maintenance, so I hope I can see it through your video someday soon. Keep up the great work!
Haha, Schrodinger's university. Good one.
Really enjoying the series Jay. So informative. Missing Paris - wish I was there again!
Great vlog Jay! I so regret now not popping into Saint-Étienne-du-Mont when I was wandering around that 'hood a year ago last spring--it's truly gorgeous inside. And getting to hear the choir practice in Saint Julien le Pauvre was a real treat. In general, I love how this series is unfolding, with the time it allows you (and us) to explore each quartier in a bit of detail. Brilliant stuff.
Also: great music in this one! Well chosen!
The tree outside of Saint Julien le Pauvre is supposed to be the oldest in Paris as it is claimed to have survived the 1870 siege. This video feels like home to me, we stayed on Rue Galande and shopped at that market.
Excellent series. Making notes for when we are again allowed to visit this beautiful city.
Coming from the US, my trip to Paris in November is *probably* not happening and we are supposed to be staying in the Latin quarter. This was equal torture and pleasure 😂
That sucks--we stayed right near Place Saint Michel last November--it's a great area.
Jay "Its always noise-It's all Noise" Cue Horn.... LOVE IT!!!! Great Series!
Randall here from Whidbey Island, love the 80 in 80, looking forward to your "closer look at Paris " Merci Jay !
OHHHH, Merci this is warming my heart with memories of my Paris. Fontaine St-Michel- so many beautiful times in that area.
This is my favorite neighborhood! St. Etienne is one of the churches we pop in during the eve after some dinner. It's a great way to top off the evening. Love it. Great job Jay!
It's one of my absolute favorites!
I was able to get in to do a tour of the lecture hall and foyer with my students before the merger of universities. But it was complicated and have never succeeded since. Thanks for showing the current view!
I think I'm going to rewatch this series over the weekend because I need Paris everyday
I need paribus,
Loving this series!
Thanks Jay that was fun! My sister lived on the place Contrescarpe for ten years so I know and love the neighborhood and whenever I am in Paris I light a candle in st Etienne du mont.
I agree with the many who have really loved this series, Its more intimate than the 20 in 20 and I enjoy the deeper knowledge your dropping!
Really, really good stuff, Jay. Thank you!
Thanks Jay! Have a great weekend looking forward to more soon 😍👌
I thoroughly enjoyed this video with my morning coffee ... Merci.. merci
Jay, me encanta desayunar viendo tus paseos! Fueron de mucha ayuda cuando estuve en Febrero. Greetings from Argentina!
Really enjoying this series, Jay! The street signs on the buildings were constantly turning me around when I visited... even ol' Google Maps had trouble keeping up! 😆
Oh! Just ordered 'Sea of the Unknown' from my local bookstore, Poor Richard's...can't wait to read all about ya! 😉
Love this series!
Thanks for having us visit inside the church, the only time i went in this precise area of the city, there was a wedding and couldn’t go in.
And definitely love this new serie
Bonsoir Jay you have made me more excited to watch vids more and more im like a kid at christmas i open a new present every day
Jay another great video. i love it!!!
My language school in 2018 was round the corner from Shakespeare & Co. Lunchtimes I sat in the garden across the road and was able to gaze at Notre Dame (intact). So lucky.
Your videos are great, Jay ! ... My friend Jean graduated this year in a Master's degree of Law at the Sorbonne (Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne university) . (Banking Law and Business) :)
Hey Jay nice to see c215 work on on the walls,great artist.loving your tours again.be safe...
I love this series! i had the impression that im actually in Paris. can you make more of these videos please? maybe even make a series of the top picked restaurants by the natives in each arrondisment?
Sorbonne University is a building called the Sarbonne which houses Paris University among others now.
Great episode Jay! I have spent lots and lots of time over in the 5th. I even saw my little hotel on the street behind you =) Sorbonne was the first area of Paris I got to explore so that was a nice piece of home feel =) Thx guy
Happy to bring the feels!!
Fantastic, just fantastic Jay, a two coffee day I note. Good to see The Cluny Museum open again, think it had renovations completed this year. Please visit before the tourists return The Lady and Unicorn tapestries are with the trip alone, you will love that museum. Would be interested o know what changes have been made during its closure. Once again thanks for this series.
Another excellent video!
I agree. St Etienne du Mont is so beautiful and intimate. Thank you for taking us inside.
LOVE THIS SERIES!!!
Ok...I’m just loving today’s video!
I’ve stayed right in this quarter a few times, and recognized every street and bookshop!
Stayed twice in an apt. on B. St Michel, just opposite the School of Mines; so you were right in “my” neighbourhood.💖
Memories!
You will love the Cluny Museum, it is worth it’s own video. 🦄(Marvellous unicorn tapestries)
Can’t wait for the next 75 quartiers!
Keep well.🍁
Loving this series! I've walked by, but never entered, L'eglise Saint Julien le Pauvre. I did enter Saint Severin which is the other small church nearby.
19:21 Not quite. "Sorbonne" is a name shared between Paris 1, aka Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris 3, aka Sorbonne Nouvelle, and the former Paris 4, aka Paris-Sorbonne, which merged with Paris 6 aka Pierre et Marie Curie University to become Sorbonne Université. But there is no single university called the Sorbonne.
The building you're standing in front of is called the Sorbonne building, and it houses part of Panthéon-Sorbonne/Paris 1 (which mostly focuses on history, economics, geography etc...) and the Faculty of Letters of Sorbonne Université (so literature, foreign languages...).
Hi Jay, love your videos. Just a bit of trivia. Have you seen Midnight in Paris? You walked straight past the stairs Owen Wilson was laying on.
Maybe I'm wrong to laugh, but you're funny when you're grumpy. 😎 This series is brilliant!
I am foolish,
Thank you. Love Maubert market. Sit and have coffee at Le Metro just to people watch the market.
Lovely video. Really enjoying exploring Paris with you! Liking the new look by the way, it's spiffy lol ( I sound old lol)
Have a nice weekend.
Belle visite du 5ième arrondissement de Paris cela me fait vouloir y habiter et aller à l'université Sorbonne, merci !
Church and music was AMAZING!
It would have been nice to see more of the Sorbonne Cool Jay ! Thanks ! -Morgan & Rick
Unfortunately you can't gain access to most of it if you aren't a student - wish I could though
Love interior of Saint Etienne Du Mont and Saint Chapelle. Exterior for Sacre Cour and Notre Dame:) Loving the series! Awesome to live the city, sad I can't get there:) Keep up the great work.
Thanks for tour of the 5th. Loved the Greek Church scene.
It was cool to take a little extra wander
This one was so fun!
I'm glad you liked it!
20:37 Actually, university fees are quite cheap in France, though I do think they're higher for foreign students. For French students, they cost around 100-200 euros for a BA. The most expensive part is probably the cost of living.
love this new series! what's the story behind your new ring & bracelet?
Thanks for the great video ❗️👍👍👍👍😊
Nerd alert - if anyone out there watched Highlander the tv series - L'eglise St. Julian le Pauvre was the home of Darius. And there are many scenes filmed in the square next to the church.
Love how much French you spoke here!
Learning so much. This is fantastic, Jay!
Jay I am loving the 80 in 8
Are you going to list the arrondissements in the titles like the first few in this series? Just helps for quick reference when watching and also searching. 🙂 Really love the deep dive into Paris.
For sure! I'm trying to keep the names in it, but also trying to be sensitive to CZcams's angry algorithm haha
@@JaySwanson ah didn't even think of algorithm tactics!
Merci Jay 😘
Can't wait to be able to use my passport & visit Paris again!
My first stop, Saint Etienne, nxt time im in Paris 🙏🏼🙏🏼
All the ins and outs of the Arrondissement, is very confusing. I need you as a tour guide Jay
When were you in St Etienne?
11:16 that's the old campus of Ecole polytechnic, which moved to a bigger campus in the south of paris in 1976. This location is now a French government office
When I was considering applying to a degree program there, i also had to go on the journey of figuring out wtf was up with the sorbonne lol it was so confusing
thanks for the video thoroughly enjoyed it. which camera are you using for the bulk of the footage in this vlog? the 6500? looks really good.
My mother did her junior year of college at the Sorbonne.
Bravo! Thank you Jay. Excellent topic.
May I recommend one thing? Your eyes communicate a lot. Like, A. Lot. If you’re wearing a mask and talking to the camera please take off the sunglasses. I like it much better when you do that. Gorgeous footage. Gratitude! Keep it coming my brother! Thanks for sharing.
Oh! That first Church you went inside of and heard the choir. I went in there in 2018 and saw a remarkable solo classical piano concert. Keep your eyes peeled for advertisements around that area posted everywhere for that church because the sound in there is amazing and you will hear monsters you’ve never heard of play classical at such a level of mastery It’s hard to believe. What could be better than a setting of a church that was built in the Mediaeval period? It’s one of Paris‘s oldest churches. Tickets were cheap for the concert too, a total bargain.
Wow and that church dedicated to St. Genevieve was spectacular and purposely asymmetrical... thank you for going in there! I never saw that before. Gratitude! Next time I am lucky enough to be in Paris I will go there first on my list.
Keep up the good work, Jay!
Cluny - original heads for the kings of france from Notre Dame - good story how they were hidden and found. Also, the remnants of Nicolas Flammel's tomb. And many other treasures.
Can't wait to get in there! =D
This brings back fond memories of me almost getting pickpocketed. Thank goodness for the maître d’ of that resto on the corner beside Shakespeare and Co who alerted me to the pickpocket eyeing me. The shocking part for me was that the pickpocket had a car! 😂 Fun times 🌟