Paris Nanterre University

Paris Nanterre University French: Université Paris Nanterre, formerly Paris-X as well as commonly planned to as Nanterre, is a public research university based in Nanterre, Paris, France. it is one of the near prestigious French universities, mainly in the areas of law, humanities, political science, social as well as natural sciences in addition to economics. this is the one of the thirteen successor universities of the University of Paris. The university is located in the western suburb of Nanterre, in La Défense area, the multiple district of Paris.

History

Nanterre was built in the 1960s on the outskirts of Paris as an quotation of the Sorbonne. It was race up as an independent university in December 1970. Based on the American model, it was created as a campus as opposed to the old French universities which were smaller and integrated with the city in which they were located.

Nanterre became famous shortly after its opening by being at the center of the May '68 student rebellion. The campus was nicknamed "Nanterre, la folle" Mad Nanterre or "Nanterre la rouge" Red Nanterre, in mention to communism.