Sometime Garrett collaborator Michael Kurland ( who would himself write later Lord Darcy works, with the permission of Garrett's estate ) appears as Sergeant-at-Arms Michael Coeur-Terre in Too Many Magicians ; and in " A Case of Identity " the Marquise of Rouen, worried about her missing husband, is described as drinking herself into a stupor on " the best brandy, the St.

When Joan is transferred to Rouen, a French city still under English occupation, a mysterious bearded man in black robes and hood, dubbed " The Conscience " in the script, suddenly appears, and as suddenly vanishes, after questioning her visions, her motivations, and beliefs.

Because the Normans deposed the Anglo-Saxon episcopate, replacing them with Norman bishops, of which Osmund was one, and in light of the similarities between the liturgy in Rouen and that of Sarum, it appears the Normans imposed their French liturgical books as well.

Although it did not have a university, Rouen became an important intellectual centre by reason of its reputed schools of higher learning.

Robert was prior of the church of St Ouen at Rouen before he became abbot of the important Jumièges Abbey in 1037.

Experiments at Rouen produced the earliest soft-paste in France, but the first important French soft-paste porcelain was made at the Saint-Cloud factory before 1702.

Rouen is the regional capital, historically important with many fine churches and buildings, including the tallest cathedral tower in France.

FitzAlan's military success led to several important appointments of command ; in November 1431, he was made lieutenant of the Rouen garrison, and shortly after also captain of Vernon.

His work was not limited to Rouen: he also acted as organ consultant and helped with the installation and repair of important instruments in various cities.

His other important work is a Recueil des voyages qui ont servi a l ' établissement de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales aux Provinces Unies ( 10 vols, new ed., Rouen, 1725 ).

The name of the Vexin is derived from a name for a Gaulish tribe now known as the Veliocasses that inhabited the area and made Rouen their most important city.

By the 1420s, many important French towns were under English control, including Caen, Falaise, Cherbourg and Rouen.

During this period Segantini produced several important paintings using Baba as a model, including Mothers, After a Storm in the Alps, A Kiss and Moonlight Effect ( Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen ).

A church was already present at the location in late 4th century, and eventually a cathedral was established in Rouen as in Poitiers.

In the 2001 movie A Knight's Tale, the protagonist William Thatcher ( played by Heath Ledger ) poses as a noble and competes in his first jousting tournament at Rouen.

On a branch of the Trans-Siberian Railroad in Manchuria, the game's protagonist, Yuri Volte Hyuga ( Urmnaf " Uru " Bort Hyuga in the Japanese version ), hears a voice in his head telling him to rescue the young Alice Elliot, whose priest father was recently murdered in a most brutal fashion in Rouen, France.

* The game Call of Duty 3 features a map set in Rouen.

* The PC adventure game Touché: The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer starts in Rouen.

After the UK tour by the French, the Dick, Kerr Ladies went on to tour in France where they played in Paris, Roubaix, Havre and finally Rouen, drawing on three and winning the final game.

In these early cards the Jack of Spades, Jack of Hearts, and King of Diamonds are shown from the rear, with their heads turned back over the shoulder so that they are seen in profile ; however, the Rouen cards were so badly copied in England that the current designs are gross distortions of the originals.

On July 23, 1894, the Parisian magazine Le Petit Journal organized what is considered to be the world's first motoring competition from Paris to Rouen.

Sixty-nine cars started the selection event that would show which entrants would be allowed to start the main event, the race from Paris to Rouen.

Count Jules-Albert de Dion was first into Rouen after 6 hours and 48 minutes at an average speed of 19 km / h.

He was charged with failure to report for duty, and was imprisoned in Le Havre and then Rouen.

It was in the military prison in Bonne-Nouvelle, a district of Rouen, from February to May, that he did the work that made his reputation.

The Tomographic Atom Probe ( TAP ), developed by researchers at the University of Rouen in France in 1993, introduced a multichannel timing system and multianode array.

He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen.

In time Étienne was back in good graces with the cardinal, and in 1639 had been appointed the king's commissioner of taxes in the city of Rouen — a city whose tax records, thanks to uprisings, were in utter chaos.

Barnabas curing the poor by Paolo Veronese, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen.

Walter of Pontoise was canonized by Hugh de Boves, the Archbishop of Rouen in 1153 ; Walter was the last saint in Western Europe to have been canonized by an authority other than the pope.

“ The last case of canonization by a metropolitan is said to have been that of St. Gaultier, or Gaucher, abbot of Pontoise, by the Archbishop of Rouen.

He later produced several series of paintings including: Rouen Cathedral, Poplars, the Parliament, Mornings on the Seine, and the Water Lilies that were painted on his property at Giverny.

In 1765 he was unanimously elected associate member of the Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts of Rouen, but there is no evidence that he left Paris to accept the honor.

He moved around northern France and painted from hotels in Rouen, Paris, Le Havre and Dieppe.

File: Camille Pissarro ( 1830-1903 )-' View of Rouen ', 1898. jpg | View of Rouen, 1898, Honolulu Museum of Art

In St. Maclou at Rouen are three magnificently carved doors ; those by Jean Goujon have figures in niches on each side, and others in a group of great beauty in the center.

Hugues de Toucy, Archbishop of Sens and Primate of France, presided, and Louis and Eleanor were both present, as were the Archbishops of Bordeaux and Rouen.

Sometime between the end of March and the beginning of May, Eleanor left Poitiers but was arrested and sent to the King at Rouen.

In July, Elizabeth sent out another force under Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, to help Henry IV in besieging Rouen.

In the summer of 945, he was captured by the Norsemen of Rouen and subsequently released to Duke Hugh the Great, who held him in custody.

France also boasts a number of seaports and harbours, including Bayonne, Bordeaux, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Brest, Calais, Cherbourg-Octeville, Dunkerque, Fos-sur-Mer, La Pallice, Le Havre, Lorient, Marseille, Nantes, Nice, Paris, Port-la-Nouvelle, Port-Vendres, Roscoff, Rouen, Saint-Nazaire, Saint-Malo, Sète, Strasbourg and Toulon.

Lyons and Rouen each had about 40, 000 population, but Lyon had a powerful banking community and a vibrant culture.