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Rouen Cathedral

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Rouen Cathedral

The primatial Notre-Dame de l'Assomption (Our Lady of the Assumption) cathedral ...in Rouen, with its very tall lantern tower overlooking the Norman old town, is a monument symbolic of the city.
Joan of Arc (1412-1431)

Biography

Joan of Arc (1412-1431)

Joan of Arc, the heroine of the Hundred Years War, known as the Maid of ...Orléans, was from peasant stock and could neither read nor write. She was born in Domrémy in the Meuse.

Biography

Bertrand Du Guesclin (approx. 1320 – ...1380)

A legendary figure of the One Hundred Years War, Bertrand du Guesclin, together ...with Joan of Arc, was the symbol of the national feeling developing in France.