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I'm sure this example of a double cathedral city is cheating, but what about
Autun? I believe that the existing 12th cent church of St Lazare, which was in
fact the canons' church, was used as the bishop's seat for periods in the later
Middle Ages, while the 'proper' cathedral, St-Nazaire, just across the road
(which now only survives in fragments incorporated into later buildings, and a
recently excavated cloister), was under construction.

Andrew Jotischky
Department of History
Lancaster University