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Regarding the intellectual milieu of Paris during 12th and early 13th centuries, most scholarship focuses on the origins of the University of Paris. This paper, however, aims to examine the infrastructure and the networks at Paris in 12th century and early 13th century. Since the 12th century, Paris had intellectual prominence over such rival cities as Chartres and Laon, rising to prominence as an educational city around the Europe. This development of Paris may be attributed to the benefits of its being the capital and the political support of the Capetian dynasty, and the legal support of the Papacy. However, the freedom to set up a private school and the competition between scholars including actively debate over intellectual issues like the universal brought many eminent scholars to Paris. Because great theologians and philosophers, such as Peter Abelard, Hugh of St. Victor, and Adam du Petit Pont came to Paris to teach and study, Paris rose as an intellectual center of theology and the liberal arts in 12th century. As a result of their intellectual fame and ease of opening up a school on the Left Bank of the Seine, the academic space of Paris expanded into the Left Bank. The nation, that is, the corporation of masters of the faculty of the arts of the University of Paris of was born in the 1220s. Over time the masters created a more well-ordered organization for the protection of their rights. The nations of the faculty of arts of the University of Paris were composed of French, Normandy, Italian and English-German ones. They also served as intellectual networks by participating in education. In addition, the masters of the faculty of theology of the University of Paris enjoyed prominent careers in the ecclesiastical world, and many of them became prelates. The masters and students of the University of Paris also served as messengers of the advanced knowledge at Paris to other areas or their countries. In short, while distinguished scholars functioned as intellectual networks in Paris in the 12th century, the University of Paris, especially its more organized nations of the faculty of arts and the faculty of theology did so from the early 13th century.