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17 unusual facts about Sens


Battle of Agendicum

The Battle of Agendicum, also known as the Battle of Lutetia, was a conflict during the Gallic War between the Roman Legion and the native Gauls that occurred near Agendicum (now Sens, France) in 52 BC.

Cathedral

Lyon had the archbishops of Sens and Paris and their provincial dioceses subject to it until the French Revolution, and Lund had the archbishop of Uppsala and his province subject to it.

Edmond Richer

Maria de' Medici, then regent in France, opposed Richer; and, when he had been censured by an assembly of bishops held at Sens, presided over by Cardinal du Perron, she had him deposed, and a new syndic elected (1612).

Ferrières Abbey

Saint Aldric 821 to 828, Abbot before he became Archbishop of Sens

Jean Knoertzer

Jean Knoertzer received the Silver Clap prize at the Sens Film Festival.

La Garde de Chambonas

Victor Scipion Charles Auguste de La Garde de Chambonas (1750 in Chambonas-1830 in Paris), a general who embraced the ideas of the French Revolution, first constitutional mayor of Sens, and one of the last foreign minister of Louis XVI.

Pierre le Vif

The Abbey of St. Pierre-le-Vif (Abbaye de Saint-Pierre-le-Vif) was a Roman Catholic monastery in Sens.

Raoul I of Brienne, Count of Eu

# Jeanne (d. 1389, Sens), Lady of Château-Chinon, married first in 1342/3 Walter VI of Brienne, married second in 1357 Louis II d'Évreux, Count of Étampes (1336–1400)

Saint Flavitus

He died on 18 December 630 and his relics are kept at the church of Sainte-Colombe in Sens.

Samson ben Abraham of Sens

Samson ben Abraham (c. 1150–c. 1230), also known as the Rash of Sens (an acronym of his name) or "the Prince of Sens", was one of the leading French Tosafists in the second half of the 12th and the beginning of the 13th centuries.

Tony Soulié

The Palais Synodal in Sens shows a major exhibition in 2007 entitled Panorama – seeking to provide a full review of Soulié’s body of work.

Vauluisant Abbey

The energetic Cistercians of Vauluisant produced more than the abbey needed; the surplus was sold in the market towns of Troyes and Provins, where the abbots retained domiciles, and at the cathedral town of Sens.

and by 1 April 1129, works were far enough advanced for Henri Sanglier, the archbishop of Sens, to consecrate the modest oratory.

Victor-Félix Bernadou

title=Archbishop of Sens

He was promoted to metropolitan see of Sens on July 12, 1867, which he remained until death.

Victor-Félix Bernadou (June 25, 1816 - November 15, 1891) was a French cardinal, since 1867 archbishop of Sens.

Viktor Reshetniak

In 2000 he underwent a training course on organizational and management work in the Central hospital in Sens (France).


Aisy-sous-Thil

Edith Royer, founder of the Brotherhood "Prayer and Penance" of Montmartre, was born in the diocese of Sens on 14 June 1841, in the village of Aisy, located on the border of Burgundy and Champagne.

Armand de Kersaint

He adopted the new ideas, and in a pamphlet entitled Le Bon Sens (a title inspired by Thomas Paine's Common Sense) attacked traditional privileges; he also submitted to the National Constituent Assembly a scheme for the reorganization of the navy, but it was not accepted.

Aubrey de Grey

An article about SENS published in the viewpoint section of EMBO Reports by 28 scientists concluded that none of de Grey's therapies "has ever been shown to extend the lifespan of any organism, let alone humans".

Bas-Vendômois

The division thus corresponds to that between the late Roman provinces of Tertia Lugdunensis (Tours) and Quarta Lugdunensis (Sens) and the civitates of the Cenomani and of the Carnutes respectively.

C'était ici

The album is noteworthy because of the many collaborators appearing in the performances such as the 35-member orchestral group Synaxis, conducted by Guillaume Bourgogne, Claire Pichet, Christine Ott, Christian Quermalet, Marc Sens, Nicholas Stevens, Jean-François Assy, Renaud Lhoest, Oliver Tilkin, Ronan le bars, Les Têtes Raides, Dominique A and Lisa Germano.

David Dusa

He is also developing a TV-series, Paradise Institute, in collaboration with Mike Sens, and works as a playwright for Belgian choreographer Wim Vandekeybus, on the creation of his next show, Radical Wrong.

Gare de Bercy

It is also the Paris terminus for medium-distance domestic services to Avallon via Laroche-Migennes, Sens, and Auxerre.

Isaac ben Abraham

Isaac ben Abraham of Dampierre (Isaac ha Bahur, or "RIBa"), 12th/13th-century tosafist, brother of Samson ben Abraham of Sens

Jacques-Philippe Lallemant

Lallemant is also the author of “Le Sens propre et littéral des Psaumes de David” (Paris. 1709) and of “L’Imitation de Jésus-Christ, traduction nouvelle” (Paris, 1740), of which there have been countless editions and translations.

Louis Jacques Thénard

A statue was erected to his memory at Sens in 1861, and in 1865 the name of his native village was changed to La Louptière-Thénard.

Mark A. Goldsmith

In March 2009, Goldsmith submitted an application to Michigan's judicial advisory committee, which was established by Michigan Sens. Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow.

Methuselah Foundation

Justin Bonomo, professional poker player, has pledged 5% of his tournament winnings for SENS research.

Ouï FM

OÜI FM was created in 1987 as a radio station with primarily Underground programming, and so its slogan was Le son qui a du sens (The Sound with Sense).

Pope John XVIII

He also adjudicated a squabble between the abbot of Fleury and the bishops of Sens and Orléans.

Preston Estep

Their submission criticized the SENS plan as essentially bringing Lysenkoism to modern aging research.

Romanian hip hop

Names such as Parazitii, B.U.G. Mafia, M&G, Renegatii, Da Hood Justice, Delikt, Dublu Sens, Morometzii, Pirats Klan and countless others started appearing between 1993 and 1995.

Samson ben Abraham of Sens

He studied under Rabbeinu Tam at Troyes and David ben Kalonymus of Münzenberg, and for ten years attended the Yeshiva of Rabbi Isaac ben Samuel ha-Zaken (the Ri) of Dampierre, after whose death he took charge of the yeshiva of Sens. The Rosh said of him that only Rabbeinu Tam and Rabbi Isaac ben Samuel exercised greater influence upon Talmudical studies in France and in Germany during the 13th century.

Savinian and Potentian

A tradition states that they initially preached at Ferrières in the Gâtinais before preaching at Sens.

SENS Research Foundation

On September 16, 2006, Peter Thiel, co-founder and former CEO of the online payments system PayPal, announced that he is pledging $3.5 million to the Methuselah Foundation "to support scientific research into the alleviation and eventual reversal of the debilities caused by aging" (SENS research).

Before the Foundation was launched in March 2009, the SENS research program was mainly pursued by the Methuselah Foundation, co-founded by Aubrey de Grey and David Gobel.

Theobald of Provins

His relics were translated to the abbey at Sens, and then to Auxerre, at the chapel of Saint-Thibault-en-Auxois (Côte d'Or).

Tosafot

Gross (l.c.) thinks that Gornish may be identical with Gournay, in France, and that "M. of Gornish," apparently the author of the Tosafot of Gornish, may be Moses of Gornish and identical with the Moses of גריינץ mentioned in the Tosafot of Sens (to Pesaḥim).

Victor Scipion Charles Auguste de La Garde de Chambonas

Victor Scipion Charles Auguste de La Garde de Chambonas (1750-1830) was a mayor of Sens, brigadier general, and French foreign minister, at the beginning of the French Revolution.

William Tong

On March 7, 2009, it was reported that Tong was being considered by a panel assembled by Sens. Chris Dodd and Joe Lieberman to screen candidates for United States Attorney.