University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (), also known as Paris 1 or Panthéon-Sorbonne University, is a public research university located in Paris, France. It was created in 1971 from two faculties of the historic University of Paris – colloquially referred to as the Sorbonne – after the May of 1968, which resulted in the division of one of the world's oldest universities.