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Protest against overcrowding, antiquated teaching, bureaucracy, and the very basis of the social system made the Sorbonne a focal point for unrest in 1968, a year of ferment throughout Europe.
Unlike the students of Columbia or the Sorbonne, they persevered, and they won--something.
But he closes with the darker speculations of Andre Glucksmann, a leader of the Sorbonne rebels of 1968 and a later convert to conservatism, that the utopian enthusiasm of those years simply did not take sufficient account of the fundamental reality of evil in the human psyche.
Over on the quiet, tree-shaded place de la Sorbonne, it’s hard to imagine the police invading such a peaceful sanctuary — one that for centuries guaranteed student immunity.
"If Robert James Waller had taken an Oxford degree or Danielle Steel had read classics at the Sorbonne, this is the sort of book they might write," says Walter Kirn in the New York Times Book Review . (Click here to read an excerpt from the book.)