Rue Cauchoise

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La rue Cauchoise est une voie publique de la commune française de Rouen.

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Rouen Synagogue

The Rouen Synagogue is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 55 rue des Bons-Enfants in Rouen, in the region of Normandy, France. The congregation is affiliated with the Israelite Central Consitory of France, and worships in the Sephardic rite.

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Church of St Joan of Arc

The Church of Saint Joan of Arc is a Catholic church in the city centre of Rouen, northern France. The church of Saint Joan of Arc was completed in 1979 in the centre of the ancient market square, known as the Place du Vieux-Marché, the place where Joan of Arc was burned at the stake for heresy in 1431. A small garden, Le Bucher, which is outside and to the north of the church marks the exact spot. The modern church Sainte-Jeanne d'Arc and the adjacent market halls were designed by the architect Louis Arretche, who was commissioned in 1969. The sweeping curves of the structure are meant to evoke both the flames that consumed Joan of Arc and an overturned longship. Many early Christian churches were designed in the shape of an overturned boat. The market halls simultaneously resemble smaller overturned boats and fish with gaping mouths, which are also rich Christian symbols. The tiled roof echoes this theme and forms a covered walkway over the square.

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La Couronne

La Couronne, founded in 1345, claims to be the oldest inn in France; however, no contemporary documentation supports this claim. It is located in Rouen, capital of the region of Normandy. It is in the historic city center and the dining room on the 1st floor contains paintings of personalities. In 1948, the restaurant served chef and author Julia Child her first French meal, which was said to inspire her to devote her life to promoting French cooking.

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Siege of Rouen

The siege of Rouen was an unsuccessful attempt by Henry IV of France to capture Rouen, the historical capital city of Normandy. The battle took place as part of the French Wars of Religion, the Eighty Years' War, and the Anglo–Spanish War. Although he had claimed the throne in 1589, Henry, a Huguenot, was not recognized by many of his Catholic subjects. He was forced to fight against a Catholic League determined to resist his rule, and which was aided by Spain. The siege began on 11 November 1591 with Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex confronting the town's governor, André de Brancas, Seigneur de Villars, "with the sort of chivalric gesture which still was made on Europe's battlefields" and "challenged Villars to meet him in individual combat." At Rouen the combined French, English, and Dutch forces of Henry IV battled the troops of the Catholic League, commanded by Villars, and the Spanish forces led by Don Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma. The city resisted until the arrival of the Spanish troops, which defeated and forced the Protestant forces to lift the siege. As historian John Lothrop Motley described the abandonment, "Henry did not wait for the attack. He had changed his plan, and, for once in his life, substituted extreme caution for his constitutional temerity. Neither awaiting the assault upon his entrenchments nor seeking his enemy in the open field, he ordered the whole camp to be broken up, and on the 20th of April, raised the siege."

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Siege of Rouen

The siege of Rouen was a key military engagement of the first French War of Religion. After having been seized by those opposing the crown on 16 April, the siege, beginning on 28 May and culminating on 26 October brought the important city of Rouen back into the crown's control. The fall of Rouen would set the stage for the main battle of the war at Dreux several months later.

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Situation et accès

La rue Cauchoise est une voie piétonne historique sur la rive droite de la Seine à Rouen. Longue de 290 mètres, elle relie la place du Vieux-Marché à la place Cauchoise.

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Origine du nom

Elle porte ce nom car elle menait vers le pays de Caux.

Historique

À la Renaissance, la rue Cauchoise apparait sur un dessin de Jacques Le Lieur, bordée de maisons. Cette rue qui a porté le nom de « boulevard du Vieux-Palais » est devenu « rue de Philadelphie » durant la Révolution française avant de prendre sa dénomination actuelle au début du XIXe siècle.

Bâtiments remarquables et lieux de mémoire

Auguste Leblond y est né. no 68,70 : maison, inscrite MH en 1956

Bibliographie

Yvon Pailhès, Rouen : du passé toujours présent, au passé perdu, Luneray, éditions Bertout, 2004, 230 p. (ISBN 2-86743-539-0), « La rue Cauchoise », p. 188-189 Nicétas Périaux, Dictionnaire indicateur et historique des rues et places de Rouen : revue de ses monuments et de ses établissements publics (reprod. en fac-sim. de l'éd. A. Le Brument, 1870), Brionne, Impr. le Portulan, 1972 (réimpr. 1876), XXXI-693 p., 21 cm (OCLC 800255, lire en ligne), p. 102-104