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99 unusual facts about Rouen


15th The King's Hussars

They moved to France on 18 August 1914, landing at Rouen.

Adrien Auzout

He was born in Rouen, France, the eldest child of a clerk in the court of Rouen.

Agglomeration community of Rouen-Elbeuf-Austreberthe

The Agglomeration community of Rouen-Elbeuf-Austreberthe (French: Communauté d'agglomération Rouen-Elbeuf-Austreberthe) is the intercommunal structure gathering the commune of Rouen and that part of the Rouen metropolitan area that lies in France.

Albert Decaris

Albert Decaris (born May 6, 1901 in Sotteville-lès-Rouen; died January 1, 1988 in Paris) was a French artist, engraver, painter and aquarellist.

Amabilis of Riom

There is a female saint (also known as Saint Mable) with this name who died in 634 AD; she was the daughter of an Anglo-Saxon king and became a nun at Saint-Amand, Rouen.

Amélie Perrin

Her personal best throw is 71.38 metres, achieved in July 2006 in Sotteville-lès-Rouen.

Androw Myllar

M. Claudin, who discovered them, and Dr. Dickson have ascribed them to the press of Laurence Hostingue of Rouen; but Gordon Duff has produced evidence to show that they should rather be assigned to that of Pierre Violette, another printer at Rouen.

Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant

Antoine Girard, sieur de Saint-Amant (September 30, 1594 – December 29, 1661), French poet, was born near Rouen.

Archdiocese of Nidaros

Both were converted Vikings, the former having been baptized at Andover, England, by Aelfeah, Bishop of Winchester, and the latter at Rouen by Archbishop Robert.

Armorica

When Vikings or Northmen settled in the Cotentin peninsula and the lower Seine around Rouen in the ninth and early tenth centuries, and these regions came to be known as Normandy, the name Armorica fell out of use in the area.

Bedford Hours

In 1430 Anne gave the manuscript as a Christmas present to the nine-year-old Henry VI, who was staying with the Bedfords in Rouen before his coronation as king of France.

Blyth, Nottinghamshire

It was staffed at first by monks from the Mother House, Holy Trinity Priory at Rouen France.

Boule de Suif

During the first half of the story, the narrator explains the background of each of the occupants, with particular emphasis on the petty bourgeois Democrat, Cornudet, who is said to have devised all manner of defences for Rouen.

Cecil Hincks

At the Battle of Lagnicourt, part of the Battle of Arras in 1917, Hincks received gunshot wounds to his legs and chest, and was sent to Rouen where his condition was assessed as "dangerously ill".

Charles Angrand

He is buried in Cimetière monumental de Rouen.

Church of St Joan of Arc

The Church of Saint Joan of Arc (French: L'église Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc) is a religious building in the city center of Rouen, northern France.

Church of St. Mary, Ecclesfield

The church was given to the monks of Fontenelle Abbey, near Rouen, Normandy, becoming an “alien priory”, a small group of monks came from France to live there.

Come to the Stable

As they prepare to leave, Sister Margaret notices a picture and they learn that Rossi's son was killed in action near their hospital in Rouen.

Déville-lès-Rouen

Tony Parker, basketball player, went to school here at Sainte-Marie college.

Dirleton

It was built in the middle of the twelfth century by a branch of the Anglo-Norman family of De Vaux, a family with its origins in Rouen, Normandy, which had settled at Dirleton during the reign of King Malcolm IV (1153–1165).

École secondaire Cavelier-De LaSalle

The school is named after the area's first seigneur and French explorer Robert René Cavelier de La Salle (born at Rouen, France in 1643, died in Texas in 1687).

Edmund Waller

He married a second wife, Mary Bracey of Thame, and went over to Calais, afterwards taking up his residence at Rouen.

État 40-001 to 40-143

Most were built by French enginerring companies, but six were built in the État's former Ouest workshops at Sotteville, Rouen.

Étienne Bellenger

Étienne Bellenger (fl. 1580–84) was a merchant from Rouen, France who, through his trading expeditions, became an important figure in the early exploration of the Maritimes in Canada.

Fernand Yveton

He was a political officer who liaised between the Combattants de la Libération and the FLN, while she was a teacher, originally from Rouen in France.

François Lévesque

He was probably born in Rouen, of Huguenot descent, the son of François Lévesque and Marie Pouchet.

François-Adrien Boieldieu

Born under the Ancien Régime in Rouen, Adrien Boieldieu received his musical education first from the choirmaster and then from the organist of the local cathedral.

Gare de Rouen Martinville

Rouen Martainville or Gare du Nord was a large railway station serving the city of Rouen, in Normandy, northern France.

Gare de Rouen Orléans

Rouen Orléans was a large railway station serving the city of Rouen, Normandy, northern France, built by the CF d'Orléans à Rouen.

Gare de Rouen Saint-Sever

The station opened on May 3, 1843 when the line from Paris to Rouen opened to service.

Gervasius and Protasius

In Gaul (modern-day France), we find churches dedicated to them, about 400, at Mans, Rouen and Soissons.

Godfrey Ludham

In 1191 John, Count of Mortain, (later King John of England) had granted the church of Walesby and its chapelry of Haughton to the church of St Mary, Rouen, and in 1257, Ludham confirmed Rouen's authority to present Walesby's vicar, and specified among his dues and duties the chapel of Hockton with its tithes, and the joint funding with Rouen of repairs, rebuilding, books, vestments and other alterages.

Grand Trianon

The façade was made of white and blue Delft-style "porcelain" (ceramic) tiles from the French manufactures of Rouen, Lisieux, Nevers and Saint-Cloud.

Honda RA099

Honda Racing had last competed in Formula One as a constructor in the 1960s but had pulled out of the sport, after its driver Jo Schlesser was killed in one of its cars in the 1968 French Grand Prix at Rouen.

Institut national des sciences appliquées

There are 5 INSA establishments organised as a network and located in major French regional cities Lyon, Rennes, Rouen, Strasbourg and Toulouse.

Jacques Boyvin

Other jobs included playing the organ of Rouen's Saint Herbland Church and supervising the rebuilding of the giant four-manual Clicquot cathedral organ.

Jacques de Béthencourt

Jacques de Béthencourt (fl. early 16th century) was a French physician who practiced medicine in Rouen.

Jean Bureau

Bombardments by the Bureaus' artillery aided in the capture of Rouen (October 1449), Harfleur (December 1449), Honfleur (January 1450), and Fresnoy (January 1450).

Jean Le Moal

Several retrospectives have been dedicated to Le Moal’s work, including at Musée de Lubeck and Musée de Wuppertal (1961), Musée de Metz and Musée de la Ville de Luxembourg (1963), Musées de Rennes, Chartres, Rouen, Dijon, Lille and Caen (1970–1971), "Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain" and Musées de Besançon, Esch-sur-Alzette, Dunkerque and Nantes (1990–1992).

Jean Rédélé

Rédélé first started (1950) rallying Dieppe-Rouen with a 4 CV, because he considered the small French car had a great rallying potential.

Jean-Baptiste de Machault d'Arnouville

Machault retired to his estate at Arnouville until the Revolution broke out in 1789, when, after a period of hiding, he was apprehended in 1794 at Rouen and brought to Paris as a suspect.

Jean-Pierre Duprey

Jean-Pierre Duprey (1 January 1930, Rouen – 2 October 1959, Paris) was a French poet and sculptor, one of the modern examples of an accursed poet.

John Louis Petit

In 1852 Petit published an ‘Account of Brinkburn Priory,’ a paper on coloured brickwork near Rouen, and some notices on French ecclesiastical architecture.

John of Coutances

He also was dean of Rouen, and retained the treasurership of Lisieux while archdeacon.

Julia Kavanagh

Julia and her mother were again living in Paris from the early 1860s, but moved to Rouen and then to Nice on the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War.

Lefebvre Busard

Indeed,the prototype was built by the designer with assistance from students at the Albert Camus technical school of Rouen.

Lina Jacques-Sébastien

Her personal best times are 7.35 seconds in the 60 metres (indoor), achieved in February 2008 in Bordeaux; 11.30 seconds in the 100 metres, achieved in June 2008 in Sotteville-lès-Rouen; and 22.59 seconds in the 200 metres, achieved at the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona.

Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot

Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (10 May 1748, Yvetot – 1831, Rouen) was a French ornithologist.

Louis Thiroux de Crosne

Prior to becoming Chief of the Police in Paris he was Intendant de la généralité of Rouen from 1767.

Luc Tardif

Tardif has played in the top level league of France, the Ligue Magnus, for Mulhouse in 2003-04, Villard-de-Lans in 2004-07, Morzine-Avoriaz in 2007-09, and Rouen in 2009-11, winning the Coupe Magnus twice (2010 and 2011).

Lucien Génin

Lucien Génin (Rouen, 9 November 1894 - Paris, 26 August 1953) was a French painter in the milieu of pre-World War I, and 1920s Montmartre and Saint-Germain-des-Prés.

Mary Howard, of the Holy Cross

Mary Howard, of the Holy Cross (born 28 December 1653; died at Rouen, 21 March 1735) was an English nun of the Poor Clares.

Mathieu de Costa

A Rouen merchant then kidnapped him in Portugal or in the East Indies and sold or lent him to De Monts as an interpreter.

May Wedderburn Cannan

During the war, she went to Rouen in the spring of 1915, helping to run the canteen at the railhead there for four weeks, then returning to help her father at the Oxford University Press, but finally returning to France in the espionage department at the War Office Department in Paris (1918), where she was finally reunited with her fiancé Bevil Quiller-Couch.

Mlle Raucourt

By 1770 she was back in France at Rouen, and her success as Euphmie in Belloy's Gaston et Bayard caused her to be called to the Comédie Française, where, in 1772, she made her debut as Dido.

Mohammed Al-Khuwalidi

His personal best is 8.48 metres, achieved in July 2006 in Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France.

Mortemer Abbey

After her death in Rouen, she is said to have come back to haunt the place.

Moses Sakyi

He received his 2nd and most recent cap in a 2–0 win against Morocco in Rouen, France on 8 September 2007.

Nicholas Grigsby

A former organ scholar of Salisbury Cathedral, he studied organ and improvisation with Colin Walsh, Organist Laureate of Lincoln Cathedral, Peter Wright at Southwark Cathedral, London and in France at Rouen Conservatoire with the blind organist Louis Thiry, a former pupil of the late virtuoso Marchal.

Nicolas du Bosc

Born in Rouen, he was the son of Martin du Bosc and Guillemette du Valricher.

Oliver St John, 1st Viscount Grandison

Before 1591 he had attained the rank of captain, and in the autumn of that year commanded Essex's horse at the siege of Rouen.

Ottweiler porcelain

Étienne-Dominique Pellevé, of Rouen, France, started producing this porcelain in Ottweiler in 1763.

Paris–Rouen

:For the world's first motor race in 1894 see 1894 Paris–Rouen

After the eruption of Franco-Prussian War in 1870 the race was no longer held but it was held as an amateur race in later years.

Paul Lecreux

The museum in Rouen contains a Bust of the Republic by him, and he also produced a Marianne wearing Masonic attributes.

Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait

Born to a family of rich merchants, Forfait studied at a Jesuit college in Rouen, where he was awarded prizes in Mathematics and Hydrography upon graduation.

Piper guineense

Though known in Europe during the Middle Ages (it was a common spice in Rouen and Dieppe in 14th Century France), these days, its use is marginalized to West and Central Africa.

Priory Cottages, Steventon

King Henry I gave the manor of Steventon to the priory of Notre-Dame de Bonne-Nouvelle in Rouen, a cell of the Abbey of Bec in Normandy.

Puy d'Arras

Other puys under her patronage were founded at Amiens, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Caen, Évreux, and Rouen.

Remember The Roses

During the Second World War, Robert, an English soilder, comes to rescue Paul Renard, a key member of the French Resistance, who has been taken by the Gestapo in a old prison in Rouen, France.

René-Aubert Vertot

He was for some time a pupil of the Jesuit Fathers seminary at Rouen, which he left at the end of two years to enter the Capuchin Order.

Richard Carmarden

Carmarden is first heard of in 1566 when he funded the printing of an edition of the Great Bible in English at Rouen.

Saint Gildard

Saint Gildard, also known as Saint Gildardus and Saint Godard, was the Bishop of Rouen from 488 to 525.

Shower

As surgeon-general at Bonne Nouvelle prison in Rouen, Delabost had previously replaced individual baths with mandatory communal showers for use by prisoners, arguing that they were more economic and hygienic.

Sidonius of Saint-Saëns

For ten years he served in Rome as a companion to Ouen, eventually being sent to found a monastery near Rouen.

Simon Toyne

After a sleepless night crossing the English channel on a storm battered midnight ferry, he and his family abandoned a planned eight-hour drive to their new home, and limped instead to the city of Rouen in search of a hotel.

Sinceny manufactory

The Sinceny manufactory was founded in 1713, when potters from Rouenand before from Nevers* moved there to establish their own venture.

Sir James Stewart

Stewart found it necessary to leave the country because of a pamphlet, and went to Rouen, where he became a merchant under the name of Graham.

Sir John Lambert, 1st Baronet

He married, in or before 1690, Madeleine, daughter of Benjamin Bruzelin, who was a merchant in Rouen.

Sir Walter Farquhar, 1st Baronet

Farquhar left the regiment at Gibraltar and spent 18 months travelling and studying medicine in France, working with Claude Nicolas le Cat in Rouen.

Sisters of the Infant Jesus

As a result of his efforts to promote a planned parish mission in the nearby village of Sotteville-lès-Rouen, Barré came to see the suffering of the local population.

SNCF Class BB 27000

They can be seen largely in North and Eastern France and the lines through Dijon to Lyon, and the lines to Rouen and Caen.

Suzanne Duchamp

In 1967, in Rouen, France, her brother Marcel helped organize an exhibition called Les Duchamp: Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Marcel Duchamp, Suzanne Duchamp.

Théodore Géricault

Born in Rouen, France, Géricault was educated in the tradition of English sporting art by Carle Vernet and classical figure composition by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, a rigorous classicist who disapproved of his student's impulsive temperament yet recognized his talent.

Thomas Netter

He accompanied the young king to France in the spring of 1430, and died six months later in the odour of sanctity at Rouen.

Trevor Blokdyk

On his return in 1966, he finished 6th at Rouen, and continued to race in Europe into the late 1960s, before returning to South Africa.

Tupelo Soul

Tupelo Soul is rock band, in post-punk style from Rouen formed in 1984 which had a great influence on local scene.

Ulmus 'Australis'

Augustine Henry described lines of the trees along the Cours-la-Reine in Rouen planted in 1649 by the Duc de Longueville; several of which were still alive in 1912, having attained a height of about 28 m.

Unic

1922 was also the year when the founder of Unic, Georges Richard, died while awaiting transfer to a Paris clinic, following a motor accident en route to Rouen.

USS LST-510

Following two voyages to Rouen, the ship was proceeding to Cherbourg when she hit an underwater obstruction which holed her hull, flooding both engine rooms and plunging the ship into darkness.

Vickers Viking

Sir John Alcock died taking this aircraft to the Paris exhibition on 18 December 1919, whilst trying to land at Côte d'Evrard, near Rouen, Normandy in foggy weather.

Victor Noble Rainbird

Common works that Rainbird executed many times are of Dutch fisherfolk, the sea and seafront at and around North Shields, and impressions of Rouen and Amiens.

Vincenzo Filliucci

Fillucci has ever been accorded high rank, though this did not save him from the attacks of the Jansenists; while, in the anti-Jesuit tumult of 1762, the parlement of Bordeaux forbade his works, and the parlement of Rouen burnt them, together with twenty-eight other works by Jesuit authors.

Wihomarc

For six weeks the Franks ravaged Brittany, but again Wihomarc did not give up and the army returned to Rouen in November.

William Kyd

Two years later, he joined William Aleyn and several others in capturing four ships carrying provisions to Rouen.

William Lamb alias Paniter

William Lamb wrote Ane Resonyng of ane Scottis and Inglis merchand betuix Rowand and Lionis in 1549.

Ydrissa M'Barke

Ydrissa M'Barke (born March 30, 1983 in Rouen, France) is a French athlete who specialises in the 400 meters.

Yould

The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be John Eude in 1427, an English soldier stationed in Rouen garrison.

Yvan Griboval

Yvan Griboval was born on 7 January 1957 in Mont-Saint-Aignan (near Rouen in the French Department Seine-Maritime) from Cécile Griboval born Toutain (1924-2012) and from Roger Griboval (1908-1997).


Al Dimalanta

Al and half-brother Jay Dimalanta formed Dead Ends in 1985 with drummer Rouen Pascual.

Freda Betti

She participated in several opera festivals including Aix-en-Provence, Avignon, Bayreuth, Nantes, Nice, Nîmes, Rouen, Strasbourg, Toulon, and Vaison-la-Romaine.

Gare de Rouen Orléans

The station opened on 7 January 1883 when the line from Orléans to Rouen opened to service.

Gerry Birrell

Gerry Birrell (30 July 1944 – 23 June 1973) was a Scottish racing driver who was killed in an accident during practice for a Formula Two race at Rouen-Les-Essarts.

Harelle

Amiens, Dieppe, Falaise, Caen, Orléans, and Rheims were all seized by rebels who followed the pattern established by Rouen and Paris.

Jacques Paloume

The tournament's location rotates each year between Rouen (France), Gross Flottbeker (Hamburg, Germany) and East Grinstead (Sussex, England).

Les Spectacles de Paris

From 1792, the almanack also kept an important slot for provincial theatres (e.g. in Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Rouen, Toulouse and Lille) and the make-up of their troupes.

Norwich Twenty Group

It has built up strong links with Norwich's twin cities in Europe and now holds joint exhibitions with Novi Sad in Serbia, Rouen in France and Koblenz in Germany.

Peugeot Type 5

The 1894 Paris–Rouen "contest for horseless carriages" organised by Le Petit Journal.

Pitstop II

Six international race tracks are available: Brands Hatch, Hockenheim, Rouen-Les-Essarts, Sebring, Vallelunga, and Watkins Glen — with a choice of either racing for three, six or nine laps and from one of three difficulty levels.

Polsteam

80-90% per that shipping involved tramping services and although the ship operator had three lines since 1951 namely: Szczecin - Stockholm, Szczecin - London - Rouen and Szczecin - Hamburg - Rotterdam - Antwerp.

Road to Rouen

Road to Rouen was a difficult album for the band due to personal reasons, including Danny Goffey's tabloid ordeal and the death of Gaz and Rob Coombes' mother.

SNCF Class Y 9000

Socofer will refurbish 22 full locomotives at its Tours plant, and will deliver 178 kits to SNCF's Sotteville-Quatre-Mares workshops.

Souarata Cissé

Souarata Cissé (born January 16, 1986 in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France) is a French basketball player who played for French Pro A league clubs Pau-Orthez, Paris, Rouen and Hyères-Toulon Var Basket.

Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter

In 1418 he went back to Normandy with a large force, taking part in the sieges of Evreux, Ivry, and Rouen.

Transport in Le Havre

The station is served by trains to major cities such as Paris, Rouen, Lyon, Marseille and local services to Fecamp and Rolleville.