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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Diocese of Orleans |
 | | It includes the arrondissement of Montargis, formerly subject to Sens, the arrondissement of Gien, once in the Diocese of Auxerre, and the canton de Châtillon sur Loire, once belonging to Bourges. |
 | | To Gerbert, Abbot of St. Pierre le Vif at Sens (1046-79), is due a detailed narrative according to which Saints Savinianus and Potentianus were sent to Sens by St. Peter with St. Altirius; the latter, it was said, came to Orléans as its first bishop. |
 | | Mme Guyon, celebrated in the annals of Quietism, was born at Montargis in 1648. |
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