Crossword clues for rouen
rouen
- French city where Joan of Arc died
- Normandy city
- Seine city
- Northern French city
- City of northern France
- City where Joan of Arc died
- Port on the Seine
- Where Joan of Arc was martyred
- Site of Joan of Arc's trial
- Joan of Arc died here in 1431
- Cathedral city on the Seine
- Where Monet's cathedral series was painted
- Where Joan of Arc was held captive
- Where Joan of Arc met her end
- President François Hollande's birthplace
- Port of Paris
- Monet's "Cathedral Series" city
- Monet painted its cathedral
- Joan of Arc's trial city
- Joan of Arc trial city
- French city where Joan of Arc met her fate
- City with a cathedral depicted in a series of Monet masterpieces
- City whose cathedral is the subject of a series of Monet paintings
- City where Joan of Arc met her end
- City midway between Le Mans and Calais
- City in which Joan of Arc died
- Cathedral city of northern France
- Capital of Seine-Maritime
- "Madame Bovary" setting
- Where Joan of Arc burned
- Church of St. Maclou's site
- Where Jeanne d'Arc died
- Where Joan of Arc died
- Flaubert's birthplace
- Site of Joan of Arc's demise
- City on the Seine
- Gustave Flaubert's birthplace
- Where William the Conqueror died
- Edward IV's birthplace
- Hundred Years' War siege site
- City where Joan of Arc was burned at the stake
- The Maid was executed here
- Where Joan of Arc was tried
- River port east of Le Havre
- Capital of Seine-Maritime department
- Duckling or French city
- Where Joan of Arc perished
- Domestic duck
- Seine port
- Where Joan of Arc was executed
- City northwest of Paris
- Where Joan of Arc was put to death
- French port
- French cathedral city
- Jeanne d'Arc was martyred here
- Old Normandy's capital
- Most of circuit taking in English and French city
- Cathedral city, capital of Normandy
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
city in northern France, Roman Rotomagus, in which the second element is Gaulish magos "field, market," and the first is roto "wheel," perhaps reflecting the Gaulish love of chariot-racing, or else it is a personal name.
Wikipedia
Rouen (; Frankish/ Old High German: Rodomo; ) is a city on the River Seine in the north of France. It is the capital of the region of Normandy. Formerly one of the largest and most prosperous cities of medieval Europe, Rouen was the seat of the Exchequer of Normandy during the Middle Ages. It was one of the capitals of the Anglo-Norman dynasties, which ruled both England and large parts of modern France from the 11th to the 15th centuries.
The population of the metropolitan area (in French: agglomération) at the 2007 census was 532,559, with the city proper having an estimated population of 110,276. People from Rouen are known as Rouennais.
Rouen is the historical capital city of Normandy, France.
Rouen may also refer to:
Usage examples of "rouen".
That very 12th of October orders had been despatched from Rouen to the Bailies and Governors of Normandy to arrest those English who had departed from the company of my Lord, the Earl of Salisbury.
French coast in clear daylight, penetrated thirty miles inland, and bombed a railway marshalling yard near Rouen.
The battalion also included the bourgeois of Paris, Rouen, and Amiens.
Pierre and Martin des Essars, starting from bourgeois origins in Rouen, had become enriched and ennobled in the service of Philip the Fair and Philip VI.
However, as Newburgh relates, it happened that some monks of Rouen were celebrating the feast of the saint in more reverent ways in the lofty tower of a church overlooking the countryside.
Bridges of this type have been erected at Portugalete, Bizerta, Rouen, Rochefort and more recently across the Mersey between the towns of Widnes and Runcorn.
Rouen cathedral, attributed to Jean Goujon and Jean Cousin, is a splendid example of French Renaissance work.
He was a councillor of the Parliament of Rouen, and had enjoyed a great reputation during his lifetime.
Nothing could have been more inacceptable to the Count of Poitou than to exchange the opulent southern provinces in which he had been bred, with their salubrious climate, lively culture, vast pleasure grounds, and matchless high places remote from the scrutiny of London and Rouen, for the counties of the young king north of the Loire.
Pouchet, director of the Museum of Rouen, did not like it and he was enthusiastically joined in not liking it by Professor Joly and Mr.
At daybreak the bishops not only of the Ile, but of Bordeaux and Rouen and Canterbury, with many others, assembled to asperge the edifice with lustral water.
By passing only the strongly fortified castles of Aumale and Gournay, he cut a wide swath from Boutavant toward Eu, burning and razing as he went, until finally he pitched his tents before Arques, not a half dozen leagues from Rouen.
Philip began with the siege of Rouen: the inhabitants were so inflamed with hatred to France, that on the appearance of his army, they fell on all the natives of that country whom they found within their walls, and put tham to death.
He suspended the Archbishop of York and renewed the excommunication of the Bishops of London and Salisbury, who had been relieved of his censures all out of season by the Archbishop of Rouen to make way for the coronation.
George Douglas came to pass the time of day and speir whether I knew my friend Master Ballagh was the sensation of Rouen.