The Story of Rouen. Theodore Andrea Cook
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Theodore Andrea Cook
The Story of Rouen
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664612441
Table of Contents
Illustrated by Helen M. James and Jane E. Cook
The Conquest of England and the Fall of Normandy
The Siege of Rouen by Henry V.
Jeanne d'Arc and the English Occupation
I A few more interesting walks in Rouen
II Monuments classés parmi les Monuments Historiques de France
Illustrated by Helen M.
James and Jane E. Cook
London: J.M. Dent & Co. Aldine House, 29 and 30 Bedford Street Covent Garden, W.C. 1899
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PREFACE
"Est enim benignum et plenum ingenui pudoris fateri per quos profeceris."
THE story of a town must differ from the history of a nation in that it is concerned not with large issues but with familiar and domestic details. A nation has no individuality. No single phrase can fairly sum up the characteristics of a people. But a town is like one face picked out of a crowd, a face that shows not merely the experience of our human span, but the traces of centuries that go backward into unrecorded time. In all this slow development a character that is individual and inseparable is gradually formed. That character never fades. It is to be found first in the geographical laws of permanent or slowly changed surroundings, and secondly in the outward aspect of the dwellings built by man, for his personal comfort or for the good of the material community, or for his spiritual needs.
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