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Rouen
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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The ancient capital of Normandy, a busy manufacturing town on the Seine, 87 m. NW of Paris; a good portion of the old, crowded, picturesque town has given place to more spacious streets and dwellings; the old ramparts have been converted into handsome boulevards; has several Gothic churches unrivalled in beauty, a cathedral (the seat of an archbishop), &c.; the river affords an excellent waterway to the sea, and as a port Rouen ranks fourth in France; is famed for its cotton and other textiles; Joan of Arc was burned here in 1431.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Rouen'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/r/rouen.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Rouen'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/r/rouen.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
