Paris and environs, with routes from London to Paris : handbook for travellers . of the department of Seine-Tnferieure, with 124,987 in-hab., is a very important cotton-spinning place. In spite of thenumber of new streets that have been laid out in tho last fifty years,it is still the richest of French cities in Gothic buildings, both civiland religious. There arc also several old timbered houses. The oldwalls of the town, which bade defiance to Henry V. of England in1415 and to Henri IV. of France in 1592, have been converted intoboulevards planted with trees. The chief thoroughfare of Rouen
Paris and environs, with routes from London to Paris : handbook for travellers . of the department of Seine-Tnferieure, with 124,987 in-hab., is a very important cotton-spinning place. In spite of thenumber of new streets that have been laid out in tho last fifty years,it is still the richest of French cities in Gothic buildings, both civiland religious. There arc also several old timbered houses. The oldwalls of the town, which bade defiance to Henry V. of England in1415 and to Henri IV. of France in 1592, have been converted intoboulevards planted with trees. The chief thoroughfare of Rouen is the handsome Rue Jeanne-fVArc (V\. 0, 1-4), which runs from the Rue Verte (Gare de la RiveDroite) to the Seine. To the left is the Tour de Jeanne-dArc (, 1; entrance in Rue Bouvreuil), the donjon of a castle built byPhilip Augustus in 1207. It contains a small museum with docu-ments relating to Joan of Arc. No. 102 in this street (tablet) isthe site of the tower in which Joan of Arc was imprisoned in 1431. i ^aCnsetnxx^ -f ROUEN 1: 15,000 aoe I MetreR 4r-^ ^^^=2*^ --^. >- T ——±-r frtPatrice • ^ rife \KxiS(uJ2/i^^ ! > i %> 1^ ^t. -^-^ I ^ ft^Vad^i^tnA 4^ ^^ ,$VGodard> 1^ lb ^^^^! I Tour f •^
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