in particular, the Catholic church was going to label notes of the devil, and things not to play. You go to la Sorbonne they have all these books about it.
That's how I got to Paris. I went to the Sorbonne . I studied Psychology. He went back to Israel.
I'm gonna let Lex do the pronunciations, the foreign language pronunciations for the day. He was a professor classics at the Sorbonne in Paris, you know, the top university, actually in the 1860s, so actually, right around after the US Civil War.
He go to Paris at age 14 to study to become a priest, which is quite ironic because he ends up being the most notorious atheist of the 18th century. While in Paris, he drops out of the Sorbonne , which is the faculty of theology at the time, then he spends 10 years of doing not too much. So he has a great dilettante phase, which I always recommend to all of my students.
Well, what happens before 1865 is documented in the libraries or the history departments of Harvard University, in the history departments of la Sorbonne in Paris, or in Oxford in England. But somehow we never apply that knowledge of history to what it did and to what it contributed to American music.
In the first half, I introduce him from his humble origins as a wannabe priest coming from the small city of Langres. I follow him to Paris, where he drops out of the Sorbonne as I said, and then finally to Vincennes prison. This is really a dramatic pause in his life.
So with that, I'm going to introduce Joseph. I realized later that this one curator was right and probably helps that she's PhD from the Sorbonne and everything else.
So that was my life. And actually, we were the first university lab, in the Sorbonne University, to have access and study and be in the 3D space. So that's one area where really understanding the digital and social interaction.
It was very eye-opening. So eye-opening was it that he decided to move his studies from Glasgow to Paris, and spent two years at the Sorbonne . In 1933, the other very decisive moment in his life occurred when he met members of the Italian antifascist exile
Là, j'ai 9 ans. On switche, CM1. Je suis dans le 5e arrondissement. Alors, pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas le 5e arrondissement, c'est le Panthéon, c'est les Lumières, la Sorbonne , c'est les étudiants. Sauf que, moi, ce que j'aimais, c'était le bidonville.
Dead for nine years, the notorious atheist had been the driving force behind the most controversial book of the 18th century, the "Encyclopédie." This massive dictionary had not only dragged sacrilege and freethinking out into the open, but triggered a decades-long scandal that involved the Sorbonne , the Paris Parliament, the Jesuits, the Jansenists, the king, and the pope.
Most episodes begin in the classroom with him teaching university students. And in this one, in fact, in a couple of-- perhaps even in the next scene, we are actually in the Sorbonne in Paris, and he's lecturing there.
I would've been short anyway. So, I then was fortunate being in Paris, going to the Sorbonne . And on my way back to Israel in 1956, I said, "I have to see the United States.