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Theodore Andrea Cook. The Story of Rouen
The Story of Rouen
Table of Contents
Illustrated by Helen M. James and Jane E. Cook
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PREFACE
ILLUSTRATIONS
MAPS
CHAPTER I
Introductory
CHAPTER II
The First City
CHAPTER III
Merovingian Rouen
CHAPTER IV
Rouen under her own Dukes
CHAPTER V
The Conquest of England and the Fall of Normandy
CHAPTER VI
A French Town
CHAPTER VII
La Rue de la Grosse Horloge
CHAPTER VIII
The Siege of Rouen by Henry V
CHAPTER IX
Jeanne d'Arc and the English Occupation
CHAPTER X
A City of Churches
CHAPTER XI
Justice
CHAPTER XII
Death
CHAPTER XIII
Life
A SIXTEENTH-CENTURY MADRIGAL
CHAPTER XIV
Literature and Commerce
APPENDIX
I. A few more interesting walks in Rouen
II. Monuments classés parmi les Monuments Historiques de France
III. Museums and Libraries
IV. Authorities
INDEX
FOOTNOTES
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Theodore Andrea Cook
Published by Good Press, 2019
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From north to south the town is cut by the Rue Jeanne d'Arc; further eastwards, by the Rue des Carmes, which becomes the Rue Grand Pont; and by the Rue de la République, which passes clear from the Musée des Antiquités at the northern angle of the town to the Pont de Pierre Corneille on the river. The quays are crowded with a busy throng of workmen; on the stream are ships from every quarter of the world; great cranes are hoisting merchandise out of their holds and distributing it into the markets of the town, or into the barges for Paris and the Île-de-France. For this is the limit of the maritime Seine, and here, where the tide of ocean throbs upon her quays, it was but natural that the strength and commerce of Rouen should increase and multiply. "L'agneau de la ville a toujours la patte levée" says the old Norman proverb, and if you look at the lamb upon the arms of Rouen you will see her foot is raised in readiness for the travel that has been always the characteristic of her sons. From the days when northern rovers sailed here, when Guiscard's colonists went out to Sicily, when traders watched the wind for England, the citizens of Rouen have had their interests far afield.
But it is with the story of their home-town that I have now to do. And if it is to be told within the bounds of your patience and my opportunity, that story must be limited, if not by the old walls of the city, then by the shortest circuit of the suburbs round it. Nor need we lose much by this circumscribing of our purpose. The life of Normandy was concentrated in its capital. The slow march of events from the independence as a Duchy to the incorporation as a part of France has left footprints upon all the thoroughfares of the town. The development of mediæval Rothomagus into modern Rouen has stamped its traces on the stones of the city, as the falling tide leaves its own mark upon the timbers of a seaworn pier. It will be my business to point your steps to these traces of the past, and from the marks of what you see to build up one after another the centuries that have rolled over tide-worn Rouen. Let it be said at once that the "Old Rouen" you will first see is almost completely a French Renaissance city of the sixteenth century. Of older buildings you will find only slight and imperfect remnants, and as you pass monstrosities more modern you will involuntarily close your eyes. But the remnants are there, slight as they are; and they are worth your search for them, as we try together to reconstruct the ancient city of which they formed a part.
