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SEES , a town of north-western France, in the department of Orne, on the river Orne 3 M. from its source and 13 M. N.N.E. of Alencon by rail. Pop. (1906) town, 2612; commune, 3982. The town is a bishop's see and has a Gothic
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seminary , located in the old abbey of St Martin (sup-posed to be one of the fourteen or fifteen monasteries founded in the 6th century by St Evroult); and the sumptuous modern chapel of the Immaculate Conception, a resort of pilgrims.The first bishop of Sees (Saium, Sagium) was St Lain, who lived about the 4th century. In the 9th century Sees was a fortified town and fell a prey to the Normans. At that period Sees consisted of two distinct parts, separated by the Ornethe bishop's burgh , and to the south, the new or count's burgh (Bourg le Comte). From 1356 the counts
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