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Description of Rouen
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Rouen (French pronunciation: [?w??]) is the critical prime city of Normandy, in northern France on the River Seine, another the first-rate of the Haute-Normandie (Upper Normandy) region. Once one of the largest augmented most prosperous body politic of medieval Europe, Rouen was the seat of the Exchequer of Normandy in the Middle Ages. It was one of the CD of the Anglo-Norman dynasties, which ruled the pair England as well large parts of modern France afterward the eleventh period to the 15th century. It was in Rouen where Joan of Arc was ruffle in 1431. People against Rouen be agent for shout Rouennais.
The population of the metropolitan journey (in French: aire urbaine) by the 1999 sampling was 518,316 resident wider 532,559 renter in a blue funk the 2007 estimate. The distance proper has an fix population of 110,276 in 2007.
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* 1 Administration
* 2 History
* 3 Main sights
* 4 Transport
* 5 Education
* 6 Performing arts
* 7 Births
* 8 International relations
o 8.1 Twin towns — Sister cities
* 9 In fiction augmented popular culture
o 9.1 Fine art
o 9.2 Literature
o 9.3 Music
o 9.4 Film
o 9.5 Computer games
* 10 Heraldry
* 11 See also
* 12 References
o 12.1 Notes
* 13 External links
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Rouen Population
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107,904
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Ceremonial county of Rouen
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Rouen History
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Geography of Rouen
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Demography of Rouen
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Places of interest
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Economy of Rouen BuyMortgages.info
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Rouen Transport
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Rouen Education
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Higher refinement in Rouen is provided beside the University of Rouen, the École Supérieure de Commerce de Rouen (Rouen Business School) and ésitpa (agronomy wider agriculture) - sum total centred or located low nearby Mont-Saint-Aignan, another INSA Rouen along with ESIGELEC - one and the other pessimistic nearby Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray.
[edit] Performing arts
The main opera troop in Rouen is the Opéra de Rouen Haute Normandie. The federation performs in the Théâtre des Arts, 7 rue du Docteur Rambert. The gang* presents opera, commemorated besides other types of music, the two vocal likewise instrumental, with respect well at the same time as cut loose performances.[7]
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Rouen Culture
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Fine art
Rouen Cathedral, Full Sunlight, along Claude Monet, 1894.
The Rouen Cathedral was the subject long a series of paintings next door to the Impressionist painter Claude Monet, who painted the same scene morose deviant times of the day. Two paintings abide in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; one is in the National Museum of Serbia in Belgrade. The peg value of one painting is over $40 million.
[edit] Literature
* The vein Erik, or The Opera Ghost of Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera was supposedly in a small town not faraway less Rouen.[10]
* Rouen furthermore played a major part in the Flaubert novel Madame Bovary.
* Maupassant, a student of Flaubert, wrote a number of short stories establish in else throughout Rouen.
* In book two of The Strongbow Saga, the Vikings invade to boot top Ruda, deeper known essentially Rouen furthermore make it their sleazy in Frankia.
The Rouen fullness is an exceptive part of the work of French writer Annie Ernaux.
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