France City  -  Rouen

It was one of the capitals of the Anglo-Norman dynasties, which ruled both England and large parts of modern France from the 11th century to the 15th century. It is in Rouen that the English burnt Joan of Arc in 1431.

The population of the metropolitan area (in French: aire urbaine) at the 1999 census was 518,316 inhabitants. The city proper had a population of 106,592.

Local Attractions - places to visit    

• The Notre Dame cathedral More>>

Rouen Cathedral

• The Gros Horloge
• The Gothic Church of Saint Maclou

Abbey church of Saint-Ouen, (chevet) in Rouen

• The Palais de Justice
• The church of Saint Joan of Arc More>>

History    

Rouen was probably founded by the Romans who called it Rotomagus. Rouen was the chief city of the Secunda Provincia Lugdunensis under Constantine. More>>

Administration    

Rouen is the capital of the Haute-Normandie (Upper Normandy) région, as well as a commune and the préfecture (capital) of the Seine-Maritime département.

Rouen and 36 suburban communes of the metropolitan area form the Community of Agglomeration of Rouen Haute-Normandie, with 393,621 inhabitants in it at the 1999 census.

Transportation    

Rouen is served by a light rail system opened in 1994, the Métro. It branches into two lines out of a metro tunnel running through the city center.

Rouen is also served by buses run in conjunction with the tramway by the local transport authority, Metrobus. More>>

Education    

• École Supérieure de Commerce de Rouen, located at nearby Mont-Saint-Aignan
• INSA Rouen More>>

Births     

Rouen was the birthplace of:

• Isaac Oliver (c.1560-1617), French-born English portrait miniature painter
• Samuel Bochart (1599-1667), theologian and Orientalist
• Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), tragedian
• Adrien Auzout (1622-1691), astronomer
• Thomas Corneille (1625-1709), dramatist, brother of Pierre Corneille
• Noel Alexandre (1630-1724), theologian and ecclesiastical historian
• Marie Champmeslé (1642-1698), actress
• René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643-1687), cleric and explorer
• Gabriel Daniel (1649-1728), Jesuit historian
• Nicolas Lemery (1645-1715), chemist
• Jean Jouvenet (1647-1717), painter
• Jacques Basnages (1653-1723), Protestant divine
• Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657-1757), author
• Pierre Antoine Motteux (1663-1718), English translator and dramatist
• Pierre François le Courayer (1681-1776), Catholic theological writer
• François d'Agincourt (1684-1758), composer, harpsichordist and organist
• Jean Restout (1692 - 1768), painter
• Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (1711-1780), novelist
• Jacques-François Blondel (1705 - 1774), architect, urbanist
• Jacques Duphly (1715-1789), harpsichordist and composer
• François-Adrien Boïeldieu (1775-1834), composer, mainly of operas
• Pierre Louis Dulong (1785-1838), physicist and chemist
• Théodore Géricault (1791-1824), painter, painted The Raft of the Medusa
• Armand Carrel (1800-1836), writer
• Pierre Adolphe Chéruel (1809-1891), historian
• Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), novelist, who wrote Madame Bovary
• Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941), novelist, creator of the character Arsène Lupin
• Charles Nicolle (1866-1936), bacteriologist who earned the 1928 Nobel Prize in Medicine
• Georges Guillain (1876-1961), neurologist
• Marcel Dupré (1886-1971), organist and composer
• Philippe Étancelin (1896-1981), Grand Prix motor racing
• Roger Apéry (1916–1994), mathematician
• Jacques Rivette (born 1928) film director
• Stéphan Caron (born 1966), freestyle swimmer
• Vincent Delerm (born 1976), singer-songwriter, pianist
• David Trézéguet (born 1977), French-Argentine football striker

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