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Verb
sees- third-person singular of see
Noun
sees- Plural of see
Finnish
Etymology
From earlier *sekes.Adverb
Extensive Definition
Sées is a town and commune
of north-western France, in the
department of Orne, on the Orne River 3
miles from its source and 13 miles north by northeast of Alençon by
railway. In 1999, its population
was 4,501.
History
The first bishop of Sées (Saium, Sagi-um)
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 Sées consisted of two distinct parts, separated by the
Ornethe bishop's borough, and to the south, the
new or counts borough (Bourg le Comte). From 1356 the
counts of Alençon were its possessors. It was captured and
recaptured in the wars between Henry
II of England and his sons. In the Hundred
Years' War it was one of the first towns of Normandy to fall
into the hands of the English (1418). Pillaged by the
Protestants
during the Wars of
Religion, Sées attached itself to the Catholic
League in 1589, but voluntarily
surrendered to Henry
IV of France in 1590.
Sights
The town is an episcopal
see and has a Gothic
cathedral remarkable
for the boldness of its architecture. The church dates from the 13th and
14th
century and occupies the site of three earlier churches. The
west front, which is disfigured by the buttresses projecting beyond
it, has two stately spires
of open work 230 ft. high. The nave was built towards the end of
the 13th century. The choir, built soon afterwards, is
remarkable for the lightness of its construction. In the choir are
four bas-reliefs of great beauty representing scenes in the life of
the Virgin
Mary; and the altar is
adorned with another depicting the removal of the relics of St.
Gervais and St. Protais. The church has constantly been the
object of restoration and reconstruction.
Other noteworthy buildings are the episcopal palace (1778), with a pretty
chapel; the higher
seminary, located in
the old abbey of St.
Martin, supposed to be one of the fourteen or fifteen monasteries founded in the
6th
century by St. Evroult;
and the sumptuous modern channel of the Immaculate
Conception, a resort
of pilgrims.
References
sees in German: Sées
sees in French: Sées
sees in Italian: Sées
sees in Dutch: Sées
sees in Polish: Sées
sees in Portuguese: Sées
sees in Vietnamese: Sées
sees in Volapük: Sées