The historian Ian Wood has suggested that Mellitus ' journey through Gaul probably took in the bishoprics of Vienne, Arles, Lyons, Toulon, Marseilles, Metz, Paris, and Rouen, as evidenced by the letters that Gregory addressed to those bishops soliciting their support for Mellitus ' party.

The well-preserved remains of the yeshiva were discovered in the 1970s under the Rouen Law Courts and the community has begun a project to restore them.

* It has been suggested by several chronicles ( notably the Annals of Westhide Abbey ) that King John killed his nephew, Arthur of Brittany, by defenestration from the castle at Rouen, France, in 1203.

Warwick also begun to spread rumours that the king was a bastard and that his true father was not the Duke of York but an archer named Blaybourne at Rouen, evidence of which has been assembled.

After Joan has entered Rouen and the others stand outside waiting for her signal.

* the Institut national des sciences appliquées ( INSA ) network is the largest engineer training group in France has grandes écoles of applied technology within regional universities: in Lyon, Rennes, Toulouse, Rouen, and Strasbourg.

Since 1977 Caudebec has been served by the Pont de Brotonne, one of three bridges built across the Seine, downstream from Rouen since 1960, to replace the many ferries so making vehicular access between the Pays de Caux and the Autoroute A13 easier.

Leth has had retrospectives at the National Film Theatre, London ( 1989 ), in Rouen, France ( 1990 ), at the American Film Institute, Washington D. C. ( 1992 ), in Mumbai, India ( 1996 ), New York ( 2002 ), Sao Paulo ( 2003 ), Toronto ( 2004 ), Florence ( 2005 ), Rome ( 2006 ), Sao Paulo ( 2008 ), Warsaw ( 2008 ) and Teheran ( 2008 ) and Athens International Film Festival, Athens ( 2009 ).

The OPTIGUIDE system, an optical guidance device developed by Siemens Transportation Systems SAS, has been in revenue service since 2001 on the bus transit system of Rouen, France.

The confident ecclesiastical architecture, such as at Lessay and Bayeux, has left its mark on the landscape, as well as an artistic legacy in literature and in art, for example Claude Monet's series of impressionist paintings of the Gothic facade of Rouen Cathedral.

The French Resistance group Fraser had set up in Rouen has been betrayed.

Town after town surrendered: in 1141, Verneuil, Nonancourt, Lisieux, Falaise ; in 1142, Mortain, Saint-Hilaire, Pontorson ; in 1143, Avranches, Saint-Lô, Cérences, Coutances, Cherbourg ; in the beginning of 1144 he entered Rouen, and on 19 January received the ducal crown in its cathedral.

Under the reorganization of the empire by Diocletian, Rouen became the chief city of the divided province of Gallia Lugdunensis II and reached the apogee of its Roman development, with an amphitheatre and thermae of which the foundations remain.

In 1150, Rouen received its founding charter, which permitted self-government.

Rouen also depended for its prosperity on the river traffic of the Seine, on which it enjoyed a monopoly that reached as far upstream as Paris.

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

During the German occupation, the German Navy had its headquarters located in a chateau on what is now the Rouen Business School ( École Supérieure de Commerce de Rouen ).

Rouen is known for its Notre Dame cathedral, with its Tour de Beurre ( butter tower ).

Rouen is noted for its surviving half-timbered buildings.

The Jardin des Plantes de Rouen is a notable botanical garden dating to 1840 in its present form.

In each, the monster is led back to Rouen and burned, but its head and neck would not burn due to being tempered by its own fire breath.

Having lost many of its historic quarters and its university campus in the war, the city does not possess what some might call the ' feel ' of a traditional Normandy town such as Honfleur, Rouen, Cabourg, Deauville and Bayeux.

In January 1792, Brunel's frigate paid off its crew, and Brunel returned to live with his relatives in Rouen.

One is the so-called Missal of Robert of Jumièges, actually a sacramentary with thirteen surviving full-page miniatures, which bears an inscription apparently in Robert's own hand recording its donation to Jumièges when he was Bishop of London, and the other the so-called Benedictional of Archbishop Robert, actually a pontifical with three remaining full-page miniatures and other decoration ( respectively Rouen, Bibliothèque Municipale, Manuscripts Y. 6 and Y. 7 ).

The organ of St. Ouen de Rouen is believed to be completely unmodified in any way ( save for normal maintenance ) since its completion, and is frequently recorded as an example of " pure " Cavaillé-Coll sound.

* Basilica of St. Ouen, Rouen, famous for its Gothic architecture and its pipe organ by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll

At the time of the Siege of Rouen ( July 1418 – January 1419 ), the city had a population of 70, 000, making it one of the leading cities in France, and its capture crucial to the Normandy campaign during the Hundred Years ' War.

* Tombeau de Géricault, Paris, Père Lachaise Cemetery, its plaster model was at the 1841 Salon, Rouen, Musée des Beaux-Arts

Its west portal, the decoration of the spire of the tower, and its stained glass are among the features which make it one of the finest churches of the Rouen diocese.

Rouen Business School's quality is recognized by it " triple-crown " accreditations ( AACSB, AMBA, EQUIS ) and its Financial Times ranking 13th position best European Master in Management.

The annals of Margam Abbey suggest that " John had captured Arthur and kept him alive in prison for some time in the castle of Rouen ... when John was drunk he slew Arthur with his own hand and tying a heavy stone to the body cast it into the Seine.

William was engaged in military actions against his own nobles throughout 1053, as well as the new Archbishop of Rouen, Mauger.

Disorder followed William's death ; everyone who had been at his deathbed left the body at Rouen and hurried off to attend to their own affairs.

On 17 August 1563, Charles IX was declared of age at the Parlement of Rouen, but he was never able to rule on his own and showed little interest in government.

Matilda retired to Rouen in Normandy during her last years, where she maintained her own court and presided over the government of the duchy in the absence of Henry.

In his absence the Dauphin tried to assemble a military force of his own, but Charles meanwhile gave his executed followers a solemn state funeral in Rouen Cathedral on 10 January 1358 and effectively declared civil war, leading a combined Anglo-Navarrese force against the Dauphin's garrisons.

:" After King John had captured Arthur and kept him alive in prison for some time, at length, in the castle of Rouen, after dinner on the Thursday before Easter, when he was drunk and possessed by the devil et daemonio plenus ', he slew him with his own hand, and tying a heavy stone to the body cast it into the Seine.

The custom spread to the secular canons of such cathedrals as Rouen, and cantors nearly everywhere used copes of silk as their own peculiar adornment in the exercise of their functions.

Flaubert based the section on the dance of Salomé from a bas-relief also at Rouen Cathedral, and his own experience watching a young female dancer while in Egypt.

Her life, meanwhile, had been decidedly irregular, even if not to the degree indicated by the libellous pamphlet Histoire de la demoiselle Cronel ', dite Frétillon, actrice de la Comédie de Rouen, écrite par elle-mme ( The Hague, 1746 ), or to be inferred from the disingenuousness of her own Mémoires d ' Hippolyte Clairon ( 1798 ); and she had great difficulty in obtaining an order to make her debut at the Comédie-Française.

There were five different proposals for a new circuit: in Rouen with 3 possible layouts: a street circuit, in the dock area, or a permanent circuit near the airport, a street circuit located near Disneyland Resort Paris, Versailles, and in Sarcelles ( Val de France ), but all were cancelled.