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|{{French commune|
nomcommune=Sens|
région=[[Bourgogne]] |
département=[[Yonne]]<br/>(''[[sous-préfecture]]'')|
arrondissement=Sens
|canton=Chief town of 3 cantons |
insee= 89387|
cp=89100|
maire= [[Marie-Louise Fort]]|
mandat= 2001-2008|
intercomm=
|longitude=3.287659
|latitude=48.24754|
alt moy= |
alt mini= |
alt maxi= |
hectares= 2,786 |
km²=27.86 |
sans=26,904 |
date-sans=1999|
dens= 965.7|
date-dens=1999}}
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|[[Image:Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot 023.jpg|thumb|270px|Inside the [[Cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Sens|cathedral of Sens]], [[Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot]], c. 1874.]]
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'''Sens''' is a town and [[communes of France|commune]] of [[France]], in the [[Yonne]] ''[[Departments of France|département]]'', of which it is a ''[[sous-préfecture]]'', in the [[Bourgogne]] ''[[Regions of France|région]]''. It is crossed by the [[Yonne River|Yonne]] and the [[Vanne]], which empties into the Yonne here.
==History==
Caesar mentions '''Agedincum''' in the territory of the [[Senones]]<ref>The manuscripts of the ''Gallic War'' also give varied readings of ''Agendicum'' and ''Agetincum'' (William Smith, ed. ''A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography''); the gilded statue of "[[Brennus]]" ("leader") surmounts the ''[[hôtel de ville]]''.</ref> several times in his ''[[Commentarii de Bello Gallico]]'', and the city retains the skeleton of its Roman street-plan.<ref>Its [[Cardo]] (rue de la République) and [[Decumanus Maximus]] (Grande Rue) still meet at near right angles.</ref> The site was referred to by [[Ammianus Marcellinus]] as ''Senones'' (''oppidum Senonas'') but it did not become an administrative center until after the [[Tetrarchy|reorganization of the Roman Empire in 375]], when it was the chief town of [[Gallia Lugdunensis|Lugdunensis Quarta]].
During the [[Middle Ages]], its archbishops<ref>The bishop of Sens perhaps became an [[archbishop]] as early as the mid-fifth century, but the cult of the traditional founders [[Savinian and Potentian]], not mentioned by [[Gregory of Tours]], did not appear until the eighth century, when they were added to the local recension of the [[Seventy Apostles]]. ([http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13716a.htm ''Catholic Encyclopedia'': Sens]).</ref> held the prestigious role of Primates of Gaul and Germany. The [[Hôtel de Sens]] in Paris was their official residence in that city. Starting from 1135, the cathedral of Sens, dedicated to Saint Stephen, was rebuilt as one of the first [[Gothic architecture|Gothic cathedral]]s; there, in 1234 [[Louis IX of France]] celebrated his wedding to [[Marguerite of Provence]]. Sens witnessed the trial of [[Peter Abelard]], [[Pope Alexander III]] sojourned for some time in the city, and there also [[Thomas Becket]] spent part of his exile.
Sens lived troublesome times during the [[Wars of Religion]].
==Main sights==
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*[[Sens Cathedral|The Cathedral]], one of the first Gothic edifices in France.
*Archbishops' Palace.
*Church of St. Maurice.
*House of Abraham.
*Museum.
==Administration==
Sens is the chief-town of the [[arrondissement of Sens]].
==Miscellanea==
It is the presumed birthplace of the 12th-century architect [[William of Sens]].
==Twin towns==
*{{flagicon|ENG}} [[Chester]], [[England]]
*{{flagicon|DEU}} [[Lörrach]], [[Germany]]
*{{flagicon|ITA}} [[Senigallia]], [[Italy]]
*{{flagicon|UKR}} [[Vyshhorod]], [[Ukraine]]
==See also==
* [[Senones]]
* [[Columba of Sens|St. Columba of Sens]]
*[[Archbishop of Sens|Archdiocese of Sens]]
==Notes==
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==External links==
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*[http://www.mairie-sens.fr/ Official website] {{fr icon}}
*{{Catholic}} [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13716a.htm archdiocese] & [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13720a.htm Councils] [http://www.mairie-sens.fr/ City council website] (in French)
*[http://icarus.umkc.edu/sandbox/perseus/pecs/page.80.a.php Richard Stillwell, ed. ''Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites'', 1976:] "Agedincum (Sens), Yonne, France"
* Pictures of Sens Cathedral: [http://france-for-visitors.com/images/supersize/sens-cathedral-gothic.jpg], [http://perso.orange.fr/villedesens/images/sens_cathedrale_interieur_cal.jpg], [http://infopuq.uquebec.ca/~uss1010/orgues/france/sensse7.jpg]
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