What is "rou"

Usage examples of "rou".

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.