In 2019, les Cours de civilisation française de la Sorbonne celebrate their first centenary. Events, unpublished documents, archives, testimonies ... every week, find us on this page to follow the news of this anniversary.

William of Rubruck: the french monk who reached mongolia before Marco Polo
William of Rubruck: the french explorer who beat Marco Polo to the mongol empire When we think of medieval European explorers journeying to the Far East, one name invariably comes to mind: Marco Polo. His tales of Xanadu and the court of Kublai Khan have fired the imagination for centuries. But what if we told you that decades before Polo’s




