Rouen is a city on the River Seine in northern France. It is the prefecture of the region of Normandy and the department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one of the largest and most prosperous cities of medieval Europe, the population of the metropolitan area is 702,945 (2018). People from Rouen are known as Rouennais.
François-Adrien Boieldieu was a French composer, mainly of operas, often called "the French Mozart". His date of birth was given as December 15 by his biographer Lucien Augé de Lassus and as September 15 by some local press releases. Although his reputation is largely based upon his operas, Boieldieu composed other works and among them, his Harp Concerto in C (1800–1801) is a masterpiece of the harp repertory.
Jean-Baptiste Descamps was a French writer on art and artists, and painter of village scenes. He later founded an academy of art and his son later became a museum curator.
The Lycée Charlemagne is located in the Marais quarter of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, the capital city of France.
Louis Henry Nicolas Thiry was a French concert organist, composer and pedagogue. He was professor of organ at the Regional Conservatoire in Rouen and played in concerts internationally. His many recordings include the complete organ works of Olivier Messiaen in 1972, which received several awards and led the composer to describe him as "an extraordinary organist". Thiry was blind.
André Dupont-Sommer was a French semitologist. He specialized in the history of Judaism around the beginning of the Common Era, and especially the Dead Sea Scrolls. He was a graduate of the Sorbonne and he taught at various institutions in France including the Collége de France (1963–1971) where he held the chair of Hebrew and Aramaic.
Auguste Le Prévost was a French geologist, philologist, archaeologist and historian.
The Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Rouen is a learned society created by letters patent of Louis XV on 17 June 1744.
Jean François Gigoux was a French painter, lithographer, illustrator and art collector.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Rouen, France.
Adrien Charles Deshommets de Martainville was a French politician.
Alexandre Chaponnier called Polyanthe was a 19th-century French physician, painter, engraver, and playwright.
The Rouen Monumental Cemetery is the most important cemetery of the Norman city of Rouen, opened in 1828 and situated to the North-East of the town-centre. The entrance gate, the chapel and the monumental cross are the work of Charles Felix Maillet du Boullay.
Louis Charles André Alexandre Du Mège or Dumège,, was a French scholar, archaeologist and historian.
Louis François de La Bourdonnaye de Coëtion was a French diplomat. He was Marquis de La Bourdonnaye and Vicomte de Coëtion, Intendant de Rouen, Conseiller d'État.
Josette Hébert-Coëffin was a French sculptor, medallist and a recipient of a 1937 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Louis Lépecq de La Clôture was a French surgeon and epidemiologist. His work consisted mainly of a 15-year observation of the relations between climate, geography and pathologies in Normandy.
Thérèse Louise Antoinette Regnault, known under the name Antoinette Lemonnier, was a French opera singer, member of the Opéra-Comique.
The Prix Bordin is a series of prizes awarded annually by each of the five institutions making up the Institut Français since 1835.
André-Hippolyte Lemonnier was a French poet, essayist and traveler.
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