Search results for "Rouen" - New World Encyclopedia

Corneille was born at Rouen, France, to Marthe le Pesant and Pierre ... for Cardinal Richelieu's visit to Rouen. The Cardinal took notice ...

Madame Bovary, was a surgeon in practice at Rouen; his mother was from some ... of the law, returning to Croisset, close to Rouen, where he lived with his ...

Saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle (born April 30, 1651 in Reims; died April 7, 1719 in Saint-Yon, Rouen) was a French priest and educational reformer ...

Edward of York was born on April 28, 1442, at Rouen in France, the ... reference to his brother's birth at Rouen and baptism in circumstances ...

the "Butter Tower" of the Rouen Cathedral. [http://www.sacred-destinations.com/france/rouen-cathedral.htm Sacred ...

a loan from the municipal authorities of Rouen in 1356 and then in 1360 ... Letters sent by Charles to Rouen from August 28 to November 11, 1372 ...

| place of death =Convent of St. Gervais, Rouen | place of burial ... William died at the age of 59, at the Convent of St Gervais, near ...

turn; the most recalcitrant, the parliament of Rouen, did not unreservedly register the Edict until 1609. Rothrock (1960), 23. ==Revocation== ...

they took part in a private marriage ceremony in Rouen, even though Gissing had been unable to obtain a divorce from Edith, and from then on they ...

museum devoted to faience, and followed by Rouen, Strasbourg and Lunéville. The products of faience factories, rarely marked, are identified ...

of Bedford, had her burnt at the stake in Rouen. Some twenty-four years later ... proceedings commenced on January 9, 1431 at Rouen, the seat of the English ...

Breakdown in Eighteenth-Century France: Rouen 1780–1800,"] Social ... Breakdown in Eighteenth-Century France: Rouen 1780–1800." Social ...

scale. Lower Normandy was quickly conquered; Rouen cut off from Paris and besieged. The French were paralyzed by the disputes of Burgundians and Armagnacs ...

before staying in various French cities—Dieppe, Rouen, Paris, Tours, Poitiers, Angouleme, Bordeaux, Arcachon, Pau, Bagneres de Bigorre, and Dinan ...

in the world's first bicycle road race, Paris-Rouen, in November 1869. David Mozer, [http://www.ibike.org/library/history-timeline.htm Bicycle ...

and weather conditions. His first series was of Rouen Cathedral from different points of view and at different times of the day. Twenty views of ...

before=Rouen Cathedral| title=World's tallest structure| ... before=Rouen Cathedral| title=World's tallest building| ...

Child repeatedly recalled her first meal in Rouen of oysters, sole meunière, and fine wine as a culinary revelation. She described the experience ...

*In a Café, 1880, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen *Nu au Divan, 1882, Minneapolis Institute of Arts ==Notes== ==References== *Caillebotte, Gustave ...

Genoa, and Venice, but even Kiev and Rouen are occasionally mentioned. The materials include a vast number of books, most of them fragments, ...

in the first automobile race: Paris to Rouen 1894. In 1895, Benz designed ... in the first automobile race: Paris to Rouen 1894. Later, investment in ...

control in France and Spain. Bishop Victricius of Rouen (Ep. ii) had appealed to the pope to clarify a number of disciplinary matters. On February 15 ...

his son, then halted the siege and returned to Rouen, after which William revoked Robert's inheritance. [[Image:Robert de Normandie at the ...

Arthur was imprisoned first at Falaise and then at Rouen. No one is certain what happened to Arthur after that. According to the Margam Annals, on April ...

in motor racing, entering the 1894 Paris-Rouen Rally with five cars ... days and entered five cars for the Paris-Rouen Trials in 1894 with one of ...

Beauvoir moved to the Lycée Jeanne d'Arc in Rouen to teach advanced literature and philosophy classes; she was officially reprimanded there for ...

dans la Littérature Autrichienne. Université de Rouen (9782877750080), 1989. He received a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Vienna ...

century still remain in Bourges, Troyes, Rouen, Strasbourg, Thiers, and other cities. [[Image:Pont-Audemer ImpasseCanel2.JPG|thumb|left|180px ...

[[Image:Richard1Rouen.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Tomb at Rouen Cathedral]] ... shot was loosed; his heart was buried at Rouen, while the rest of his remains ...

of the first car race in history, the Paris to Rouen 1894. The ill defined relationship between the inventors and DMG harmed the image of DMG ...

to rule from cities in Normandy such as Rouen and concentrate on their more lucrative French holdings. Indeed, a mere four months after the Battle ...

in the first automobile race, the 1894 Paris to Rouen Rally. In 1895, Benz designed the first truck, and some of the units were later modified by the ...

His parents, of the Rouen upper-middle class, were buried in Old St. Paul's Cathedral. One of Thomas' father's rich friends, Richer ...

dignity or importance, such as Canterbury, York and Rouen, whose cathedral churches remained simply metro-political. Lyon, where the cathedral ...

trial that still exists in the public records in Rouen; Au hasard, Balthazar (1966); Mouchette (1967), based on Bernanos's Nouvelle historie de ...

to the flags of the Le Havre and Rouen fire brigades. The award was first given to French cities during the Hundred Days. After 1870 the Republic ...

de Montaigu was founded by the Archbishop of Rouen in the fourteenth century, and reformed in the fifteenth century by the humanist Jan Standonck ...

Roland fled to Amiens and from there to Rouen. Madame Roland refused to ... When a few days later Jean-Marie Roland heard in his hiding place ...

The royal army struck back quickly and laid siege to Huguenot-held ... The Catholics took Rouen, but their triumph was short lived. On February ...

lawsuit against a Dr. Clouet. Hébert fled first to Rouen and then to Paris. For a while, he passed through a difficult financial time and lived through ...

French glassmakers in the 1320s, notably around Rouen. In this process, glass was blown into a "crown" or hollow globe, which was then reheated ...

By 1639, the family had moved to Rouen where Étienne became a tax collector, and at age 18 Pascal constructed a mechanical calculator, called ...

(who had gone into hiding) committed suicide at Rouen on November 15, 1793, a week after the execution of his wife. Paine was imprisoned, narrowly ...

Psalter, to her brother, who was archbishop of Rouen.Malcolm Godden, Simon Keynes, and Michael Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon England (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge ...

Duke of Parma to relieve the siege of Paris in 1590--and again into Rouen in 1592--to aid the Catholic faction, resulted in refortifying the ...

but was arrested on the way and sent to the King in Rouen. Her actions easily could have been considered treasonous, and thus punishable by death. ...

in a central position around Paris and Rouen and deploying them only when ... crossed the Seine near Elbeuf and entered Rouen to a jubilant welcome.Charles ...

Mayre had been born and raised in Rouen, France, and had studied with the Jesuit Order before renouncing Catholicism and reportedly fleeing ...

sur-Epte by which the Vikings were settled in Rouen, creating Normandy as a bulwark against other Vikings. ===Iberia=== By the mid-ninth century ...

in a central position around Paris and Rouen, and deployed en masse against the main Allied beachhead when this had been identified. ...