France Commune of Sens
Région	Bourgogne
Département	Yonne (sous-préfecture)
Arrondissement	Sens
Canton	Chief town of 3 cantons
Intercommunality
Mayor	Marie-Louise Fort (2001-2008)
Land area¹	km²
Population² (1999)
Population density (1999)	pers./km²
Altitude	- (avg. )
INSEE/Postal code	89387 / 89100
1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km². 2 Not counting those already counted in another commune (such as students and military personnel).

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Inside the cathedral of Sens, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, c. 1874.

Sens is a town and commune of France, in the Bourgogne région, in the Yonne département, of which it is a sous-préfecture. 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 centur until after the reorganization of the Empire in 375. Download high resolution version (1576x2303, 383 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (1576x2303, 383 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Interior of the cathedral, by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, c. ... Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (portrait by Nadar) Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (July 26, 1796 – February 22, 1875) was a French landscape painter. ... The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. ... Capital Dijon Land area¹ 31,582 km² Regional President François Patriat (PS) (since 2004) Population  - Jan. ... France is divided into 26 régions: 21 of these are in the continental part of metropolitan France, one is Corse on the island of Corsica (although strictly speaking Corse is in fact a territorial collectivity, not a région, but is referred to as a région in common... Yonne is a French département named after the Yonne River. ... Template:France divisions levels, Junkyard Willie The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France and many former French colonies, roughly analogous to British counties. ... Subprefecture is an administrative level that is below prefecture or province. ... The Senones were a Celtic people of Gallia Celtica, who in the time of Julius Caesar inhabited the district which now includes the departments of Seine-et-Marne, Loiret and Yonne. ... Commentarii de Bello Gallico (literally Commentaries on the Gallic Wars in Latin) is an account written by Julius Caesar about his nine years of war in Gaul. ...

Administration

Sens is the chief-town of the arrondissement of Sens. The Arrondissement of Sens is an arrondissement of the Yonne département, in the Burgundy région, in France. ...

See also

• Senones

The Senones were a Celtic people of Gallia Celtica, who in the time of Julius Caesar inhabited the district which now includes the departments of Seine-et-Marne, Loiret and Yonne. ...

References

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Sens

• City council website (in French)
• Richard Stillwell, ed. Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, 1976: "Agedincum (Sens), Yonne, France"
• Catholic Encyclopedia: "Sens"