Rouen
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Nov 2, 2026
Tom WilkinsonHOST
Executions in many places were public, and the punishment was partly intended to send a message to the rest of society.
Tom WilkinsonHOST
For example, in 1430, Joan of Arc, a teenage French girl who led a force against the English army, was burned to death in the centre of Rouen in France.
Tom WilkinsonHOST
The idea behind public executions is that if people see... what is happening to someone who has committed a particular crime, they might be frightened enough to not do the same crime themselves.
Tom WilkinsonHOST
This idea is known as deterrence, the belief that punishment can discourage people from committing crimes.
speaker_0NARRATOR
In America, he was appointed chief engineer of New York City in 1796 during a formative period in the city's history as it grew to eclipse Philadelphia as the foremost urban center in the young country.
speaker_0NARRATOR
While Mark was still in France, he had fallen in love with Sophia Kingdom, a young English lady who was working as a governess in the city of Rouen in Normandy after being stranded there when war broke out between Britain and France.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Mark had to leave Sophia behind when he escaped to America, but the two continued to exchange letters.
speaker_0NARRATOR
After Sophia returned to her native country in 1795, Mark was anxious to join her.
Andy from InverarnonNARRATOR
In 885, 700 ships, commanded by Rolo and other Viking chiefs, left the harbours of Norway, sailed to the mouth of the Seine, and started up the river to capture the city of Paris.
Andy from InverarnonNARRATOR
Rolo and his men stopped on the way to Rouen, which also was on the Seine, but nearer its mouth.
Andy from InverarnonNARRATOR
The citizens had heard of the giant, and when they saw the river covered by his fleet, they were dismayed.
Andy from InverarnonNARRATOR
However the bishop of Rouen told him that Rolo could be as noble and generous as he was fierce and he advised them to open their gates and trust to the mercy of the Viking chief.
Andy from InverarnonNARRATOR
This was done and Rolo marched into Rouen and took possession of it.
Andy from InverarnonNARRATOR
The bishop had given good advice for Rolo treated the people very kindly.
Andy from InverarnonNARRATOR
Soon after capturing Rouen he left the place.
Andy from InverarnonNARRATOR
sailed up the river to paris and joined the other viking chiefs and now for six long miles the beautiful seine was covered with viking vessels which carried an army of thirty thousand men a noted warrior named eudes was count of paris and he had advised the parisians to fortify the city so not long before the arrival of rollo and his companions two walls with strong gates had been built round paris It was no easy task for even Vikings to capture a strongly walled city.
Michael FassioNARRATOR
Brittany allures the artist.
Michael FassioNARRATOR
North of Paris, every enthusiast on architecture will tell you that you must not miss the cathedrals of Rouen and Amiens, and Rouen has much more than its cathedral, for it is the Nuremberg of France.
Michael FassioNARRATOR
In Spain, Madrid is the most familiar name, but with your choice between Madrid and two weeks in southern Spain, take the land of the Moor, see the Alhambra at Granada, the mosque at Cordoba, the Alcazar at Seville, glance at Cadiz, sip sherry in the bodegas at Jerez, bask in the frown of the gigantic rock of Gibraltar, and run across for a day or two in Tangier, barbarous outpost of barbarism.
Michael FassioNARRATOR
where you may yet see genuine slaves find in the thoroughly Moorish marketplace a fanatic with a sword stuck through his leg and sleep in the land of one of the few perfectly absolute monarchs yet remaining on the globe in an English hotel with all the comforts of civilization including perhaps the only finger bowls you will find in a whole European tour Algiers is now half civilized with streets as Frenchy as if they were in Paris next Moorish lanes with mosques and minarets and all the ways of the Oriental from there you may go by trains to the edge of the desert or into mountain scenery grand and savage at Tunis again you may find almost complete barbarism and at Cairo lately become a favorite goal of the traveler there are the same novelties of another civilization the tour of the Holy Land is now made with a minimum of discomfort and the maximum of safety when the unspeakable Turk isn't embroiled with European powers Constantinople is visited with impunity and delight Asia Minor however is seldom penetrated of Greece more than a word should be said within a generation it has taken great strides in catching up with the rest of the world and Athens today is nearly as modern as any other European capital its hotels streets customs are all more than endurable and its ruins are of course of the greatest interest to the student but off the beaten tracks foreigners suffer more or less hardship and women would better not venture unless they are willing to put up with privations the same thing is true of Spain where many people go you find cleanliness good cooking comfort but go into the villages of Spain or any country away from the heart of Europe and the habits of life are too primitive for the enjoyment of many tourists of course this brief sketch does not suggest all the delightful spots of Europe let it be taken as a rough enumeration of those which most travelers will prefer to see or take the time to see in search of health to discuss the matter of health resorts let me introduce my friend Bean he shall be the sullen the Solomon the Nestor of this treatise and at the same time its scapegoat I suspect he stole much of the wisdom I may attribute to him but it will be convenient to assume that he knows what he is talking about if he makes any errors don't blame me as he has the pernicious habit of writing anonymously and voluminously for the newspapers there is a chance that he may really be responsible for some of the things he must father willy-nilly if it wasn't Bean who was it that wrote the following France is particularly well endowed with winter resorts suitable for persons with chest disorders.
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Michael FassioNARRATOR
Some tourists advocate taking the train to Paris from Havre or Bourlon, or wherever one lands, if he has come direct from the States on the ground that the sea voyage has left him in poor condition to start touring at once, and that probably some outfitting in Paris will be desirable.
Michael FassioNARRATOR
Yet the road between Paris and the sea is charming.
Michael FassioNARRATOR
The beauties of the valley of the Seine would be as famous as those of the Rhine or Thames if passenger steamers could ply between Rouen and the capital.
Michael FassioNARRATOR
Brittany is more picturesque than Normandy.
Adele PooleyNARRATOR
When Richard's successor John murdered Arthur, the heir of the dukedom of Brittany and claimant of both Anjou and Normandy, Philip took advantage of the general indignation to hold a court of peers, in which John, on his non-appearance, was adjudged to have forfeited his fiefs.
Adele PooleyNARRATOR
In the war which followed, and ended in 1204, Philip not only gained the great Norman dukedom, which gave him the command of Rouen and of the mouth of the Seine, as well as Anjou, Maine, and Poitou, the countries which held the Loire in their power, but established the precedent that a crown vassal was amenable to justice, and might be made to forfeit his lands.
Adele PooleyNARRATOR
What he had won by the sword he held by wisdom and good government.
Adele PooleyNARRATOR
Seeing that the cities were capable of being made to balance the power of the nobles, he granted them privileges which caused him to be esteemed their best friend, and he promoted all improvements.
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Adele PooleyNARRATOR
after delaying till he had taken the city the dauphin called together the whole nobility of the kingdom and advanced against henry who like edward the third had been obliged to leave normandy and march towards calais in search of supplies The armies met at Agincourt, where, though the French greatly outnumbered the English, the skill of Henry and the folly and confusion of the Dauphin's army led to a total defeat and the captivity of half the chief men in France of the Armagnac party, among them the young Duke of Orléans.
Adele PooleyNARRATOR
It was Henry V's policy to treat France not as a conquest but as an inheritance, and he therefore refused to let these captives be ransomed till he should have reduced the country to obedience, while he treated all the places that submitted to him with great kindness.
Adele PooleyNARRATOR
The Duke of Burgundy held aloof from the contest, and the Armagnacs, who ruled Paris, were too weak or too careless to send aid to Rouen, which was taken by Henry after a long siege.
Adele PooleyNARRATOR
The Dauphin Louis died in 1417.
Kara SchallenbergNARRATOR
The French of Normandy was familiarly spoken in the palace of Westminster.
Kara SchallenbergNARRATOR
The court of Rouen seems to have been to the court of Edward the Confessor what the court of Versailles long afterwards was to the court of Charles II.
Kara SchallenbergNARRATOR
The Battle of Hastings and the events which followed it not only placed the Duke of Normandy on the English throne but gave up the whole population of England to the tyranny of the Norman race.
Kara SchallenbergNARRATOR
The subjugation of a nation by a nation has seldom, even in Asia, been more complete.
speaker_13NARRATOR
Anyway, he was greatly interested in Joan of Arc, you see, and decided to go over to France to work, as it were, on the spot.
speaker_13NARRATOR
I don't know if you like Rouen.
speaker_13NARRATOR
Crutchley was delighted with it.
speaker_13NARRATOR
He found a hotel practically undiscovered by the English and the Americans.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The Privy Council of England sat as usual at London.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
There was a council at Rouen and another at Paris.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The King's uncle, the heroic John Duke of Bedford, was appointed according to the terms of Henry V's will, Regent of France and Normandy.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
His brother, the unstable Humphrey Duke of Gloucester, was Protector of England when Bedford was absent.
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Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The English power slowly declined.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
As a demonstration to the contrary, the English Council sent the young King Henry, who had already been crowned in London in 1429, over to Paris to be crowned King of France there in the ancient capital of the Capet in 1431.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Six months before this coronation, the Maid, who had been captured, was burned by the English at Rouen.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
From this point, any successes scored by the English commanders were only temporary.
Paul FullerNARRATOR
France, about 14,000 port workers, including 7,500 dockers, struck at 24 ports.
Paul FullerNARRATOR
Dunkirk, Calais, Boulogne, Le Havre, Rouen, Paris, Cherbourg, Saint-Malo, Roscoff, Brest, Lorient, Nantes-Saint-Nazaire, La Rochelle, Bordeaux, Bayonne, Port Vendre, Sète, Marseille, Faux-sur-Mer, Toulon, Nice, Ajaccio, Bastia and La Réunion.
Paul FullerNARRATOR
À Le Havre, no truck entered the port.
Paul FullerNARRATOR
There is neither loading nor unloading, said François Brissot, a local official of the General Confederation of Labor, CGT.
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