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    Rouen Castle (Château Bouvreuil) was a fortified ducal and royal residence in the city of Rouen, capital of the duchy of Normandy, now in France. With...
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    installed French administrators and built a powerful fortress, the Château de Rouen, as a symbol of royal power. Although within the royal demesne, Normandy...
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    of land to Walter de Coutances and the diocese of Rouen, including two manors and the prosperous port of Dieppe. The site of Château Gaillard had not been...
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    Rouen Cathedral (French: Cathédrale primatiale Notre-Dame de l'Assomption de Rouen) is a Catholic church in Rouen, Normandy, France. It is the see of...
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    entered Rouen and definitively annexed Normandy to the French Kingdom. He demolished the Norman castle and replaced it with his own, the Château Bouvreuil...
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    The Parlement of Rouen (French: Parlement de Rouen), also known as the Parlement of Normandy (French: Parlement de Normandie) after the place where it...
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    design may have been based on the now vanished 10th-century keep of Château de Rouen, which belonged to the Dukes of Normandy. At the western corners are...
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    Bénouville Château de Brécy in Saint-Gabriel-Brécy Château du Breuil, in Breuil-en-Auge Château les Bruyères in Cambremer Château de Caen in Caen Château de Canon...
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  • Mérimée: Château de Falaise, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French) "Château de la Pommeraye". "[VIDEO] Incendie au Grand-château de Serquigny :...
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    properly, though less commonly, known as the Château de Moulineaux. It is situated at Moulineaux, near Rouen, in the département of Seine-Maritime at the...
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    installed French administrators and built a powerful fortress, the Château de Rouen, as a symbol of royal power. Within the royal demesne, Normandy retained...
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    the family seat, the Château d'Anet, which stood in a royal hunting preserve in the valley of the Eure. He also inherited the Château du Bec-Crespin. Before...
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    its headquarters located in a château on what is now the Rouen Business School (École Supérieure de Commerce de Rouen). The SS operated a subcamp of...
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    Palais Jacques Cœur Château de Châteaudun (Eure-et-Loir) Paris, Hôtel de Cluny Paris, Hôtel de Sens Rouen (Seine-Maritime), Palais de Justice St. Lorenz...
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    archiepiscopal residence of Georges d'Amboise, Cardinal Archbishop of Rouen; he made of the old château-fort a palatial Early Renaissance structure of unparalleled...
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    of Château de Chenonceau, the jewel of the Loire Renaissance palaces. In 1555, she asked de l'Orme to build the arched bridge joining the château to its...
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    The Château du Bosc Théroulde is a château built in the 17th century near Bosc-Guérard-Saint-Adrien in the Seine-Maritime département of Normandy, France...
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    patron of letters and art, and it was at his orders that the Château de Gaillon near Rouen was built. The town of Amboise owes much of its importance to...
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    The Archdiocese of Rouen (Latin: Archidioecesis Rothomagensis; French: Archidiocèse de Rouen) is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church in...
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    via Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye and Flins-sur-Seine: No. 3 de Dion, Bouton et Cie, break, six seats, steam. – Did not qualify for Paris-Rouen. No...
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    français de la Culture. (in French) Base Mérimée: Château-sur-Epte - Ensemble castral, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French) Base Mérimée: Château-sur-Epte...
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    contemporary with the Law Court and the hôtel de Bourgtheroulde in Rouen and as old as the Château de Clères. The building consists of two dwellings...
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    Impressionist and Post-Impressionist landscape painter of the Rouen School (l'École de Rouen). Member of the Société des Artistes Français, he actively worked...
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    Delisle, Histoire du château et des sires de Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, p.53. Léopold Delisle, Histoire du château et des sires de Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte...
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    ISBN 2-08-012271-1. Château de Dourdan - Ville de Dourdan (in French) Article and photos of the Château de Doudan Nice picture and history about the Château de Dourdan...
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    from Paris by the road to Rouen. It is famous as the seat of Maximilien de Béthune, duc de Sully, who retired to the old château to heal from his wounds...
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    notably the Château de Montsoreau, the Château de Langeais, the Château d'Amboise, the Château de Blois, the Château de Gaillon and the Château de Chambord...
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    The Château was listed as a French historical monument on 9 June 1977. In the middle of the 13th century, an old château belonging to Aimery de Muzy...
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    devices of Claude d'Urfé, from the Château de la Bastie d'Urfé, c. 1557–60 Single tile from the chapel of the Château de la Bastie d'Urfé Tile with head...
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    father, Nicolas died, Jehan's brothers claimed the Château de Tournoël from Louise, the widow. Château de Tournoël was sequestered by the seneschal until...
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