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.

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

The provincial parlements resisted in their turn ; the most recalcitrant, the parlement of Rouen, did not unreservedly register the Edict until 1609.

In 1286 Thomas Russel had to be returned to Rouen because of his intolerable conduct and also John de Belleville, as the climate did not suit him.

Albert de Dion is first to arrive at Rouen in his de Dion-Bouton car, but he did not figure in the official results because his steam vehicle needed a ' stoker ' and was thus ineligible.

What bicycle did Moore ride in the Paris – Rouen race in 1869?

However Emperor Louis I, who did believe the Count was a traitor, commuted the death penalty carried by the defeat, into an exile in Rouen.

He did not remain there long, for he was translated to the archbishopric of Rouen in late 1184.

When the English reached Rouen, the walls were scattered with many towers and guns, and lined by an army of crossbow men under the command of Alain Blanchard, commander of the crossbows ( arbalétriers ), and second in command to Guy LeBouteiller, the overall commander.

After Alain qualified at the École Normale Supérieure and received agrégation of philosophy, he taught at various institutions, Pontivy, Lorient, Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen, and in Paris ( Lycée Condorcet and Lycée Michelet ).

* Alain Blanchard ( born 1419 ), commander of the crossbowmen of Rouen during the Hundred Years ' War

* 1431 – Judges ' investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France, the seat of the English occupation government.

The English controlled Paris and Rouen while the Burgundians controlled Reims, the latter city being the traditional site of French coronations.

Once in Normandy the new English king went to Rouen and the Abbey of Fecamp, and then attended the consecration of new churches at two Norman monasteries.

* January 9 – Pretrial investigations for Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France under English occupation.

* August – Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex leads an English army in support of the Protestant Henry IV of France at the Siege of Rouen.

* September – The English Siege of Rouen begins.

* October 29 – The French recapture Rouen from the English.

Rouen became the capital city of English power in occupied France and when the duke of Bedford, John of Lancaster bought Joan of Arc from his ally, the duke of Burgundy who had been keeping her in jail since May 1430, she was logically sent to this city for Christmas 1430 and after a long trial by a church court, sentenced to be burned at the stake on 30 May 1431 in this city, where most inhabitants supported the duke of Burgundy, Joan of Arc's royal enemy.

The Seine Maritime, from the English Channel at Le Havre to Rouen, is the only portion of the Seine used by ocean going craft.

Whilst Brunel had been in America, Sophia Kingdom had remained in Rouen and during the Reign of Terror, she was arrested as an English spy and daily expected to be executed.

Copps earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in French and English from King's University College at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, and pursued further studies at McMaster University in Hamilton and the University of Rouen in France.

Cauchon went to Rouen, seat of the English government in France.

During the second part of the 1820s, and in addition to English and Scottish scenes, Roberts painted views of prominent buildings in France and the Low Countries including Amiens, Caen, Dieppe, Rouen, Antwerp, Brussels and Ghent, sometimes making several paintings of the same scene with only minor variations.

Born in Rouen, France, Géricault was educated in the tradition of English sporting art by Carle Vernet and classical figure composition by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, a rigorous classicist who disapproved of his student's impulsive temperament yet recognized his talent.

The English name St Mellons is believed to be derived from the 6th century Saint Melaine who became Bishop of Rennes in Brittany, rather than the more legendary 4th century Mellonius, Bishop of Rouen.

* Rouen Normandy MBA: a 12 – 16 month programme taught in English.

Walter de Coutances ( or Walter of Coutances or Walter of Rouen ; died 16 November 1207 ) was a medieval English Bishop of Lincoln and Archbishop of Rouen.

King Henry had initially rejected the Rouen cathedral chapter's nominees and put forward three English bishops as the royal candidates.

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.

The system was adopted in 1872 by François Merry Delabost, a French doctor and inventor, who when he was surgeon-general in Bonne Nouvelle prison in Rouen, France replaced individual baths with mandatory communal showers for use by prisoners, arguing that they were more economic and hygienic.

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.

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

Category: People from Rouen

In 1090 he reportedly threw a treacherous burgher named Conan Pilatus from the tower of Rouen ; the tower was known from then on as " Conan's Leap.

* 1615 – First Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.

In addition to ending both invasions, the battle allowed the duke's ecclesiastical supporters to depose Mauger from the archbishopric of Rouen.

* June 2 – The first Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.

Rouen was ravaged and then Carolivenna, a mere 20 km from St. Denis.

People from Rouen are called Rouennais.

* The character Erik, The Opera Ghost of Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera, was supposedly born " in a small town not far from Rouen ".

His adopted daughter Amy is also from Rouen, having been a street child living there.

* Rouen, Its History and Monuments, by Théodore Licquet, 1840, from Project Gutenberg

A French legend that sprang up around the name of St. Romanus (" Romain ") ( AD 631 – 641 ), the former chancellor of the Merovingian king Clotaire II who was made bishop of Rouen, relates how he delivered the country around Rouen from a monster called Gargouille or Goji.

Rallying itself can be traced back to the 1894 Paris – Rouen Horseless Carriage Competition ( Concours des Voitures sans Chevaux ), sponsored by a Paris newspaper, Le Petit Journal, which attracted considerable public interest and entries from leading manufacturers.

It is navigable by ocean-going vessels as far as Rouen, from the sea.

The Seine is dredged and oceangoing vessels can dock at Rouen, from the sea.