Sens
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Sens is a town and commune of France, in the Bourgogne région, in the Yonne département, of which it is a sous-préfecture.
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[edit] History
Caesar mentions Agedincum in the territory of the Senones several times in his Commentarii de Bello Gallico but the site did not become an administrative center until after the reorganization of the Roman Empire in 375.
[edit] Ecclesiastical history
[edit] Archdiocese
Sens is a Roman Catholic archdiocese comprising the Department of the Yonne.
[edit] Administration
Sens is the chief-town of the arrondissement of Sens.
[edit] Miscellanea
It is the presumed birthplace of the 12th-century archicect William of Sens
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
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- This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913. archdiocese & Councils City council website (in French)
- Richard Stillwell, ed. Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, 1976: "Agedincum (Sens), Yonne, France"
- Pictures of Sens Cathedral: [1], [2], [3]
![[1]](http://france-for-visitors.com/images/supersize/sens-cathedral-gothic.jpg){kind=link}
![[2]](http://perso.orange.fr/villedesens/images/sens_cathedrale_interieur_cal.jpg){kind=link}
![[3]](http://infopuq.uquebec.ca/~uss1010/orgues/france/sensse7.jpg){kind=link}