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Sète
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Sète, formerly Cette (both: sĕt), town (1990 pop. 41,916), Hérault dept., S France, in Languedoc, on the Mediterranean. It is one of the most important commercial and fishing ports of S France, a wine-shipping center, with major gasoline refineries and plants making clothes, liqueurs, and chemical products. The city is crossed by numerous canals, on which jousts by boat-borne combatants are held in summer. The old harbor was designed by Colbert in 1666 and built by Vauban and Riquet. Paul Valéry Valéry, Paul (pōl välārē`), 1871–1945, French poet and critic.
..... Click the link for more information.  was born and is buried there. The town has a school of hydrography and a zoology station of the Univ. of Montpellier.


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The case for site fidelity is still "tricky," cautions Francois Royer of the Center for Mediterranean and Tropical Fisheries Research in Sete, France.
Where tuna go: Atlantic fish mix for feeding, not spawning by Milius, S. / Science News
2000, Two-stage fractionation history of the alkali basalt-trachyte series of Sete Cidades volcano (Sao Miguel Island, Azores): European Journal of Mineralogy, v.
Igneous rock associations 4. Oceanic island volcanism I mineralogy ... by Mallory-Greenough, Leanne M. / Geoscience Canada
An informal list of the 1948 apparitions with brief details is provided in Carlo Falconi's "La sete del prodigioso e le suggestioni soprannaturali.
The virgin and the bear: religion, society and the Cold War in Italy by Ventresca, Robert A. / Journal of Social History
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