Rouen is a city on the River Seine, in northwestern 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.
Alain Chartier was a French poet and political writer.
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.
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.
Édouard Frère was a French bookseller, archivist, biographer, and historian specialized in the Normandy area.
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.
Théophile de Bordeu was a French physician.
The Lives of Flemish, German, and Dutch painters refers to a compilation of artist biographies by Jean-Baptiste Descamps published in the mid 18th-century that were accompanied by illustrations by Charles Eisen. The list of illustrations follows and is in page order by volume. Most of the biographies were translated into French from earlier work by Karel van Mander and Arnold Houbraken. The illustrated portraits were mostly based on engravings by Jan Meyssens for Het Gulden Cabinet and by Arnold and Jacobus Houbraken for their Schouburgh, while the work examples engraved in the margins of the portraits were mostly based on engravings by Jacob Campo Weyerman.
Claude-Nicolas Le Cat was a French surgeon and science communicator.
Alexandre Chaponnier called Polyanthe was a 19th-century French physician, painter, engraver, and playwright.
Edme Lesauvage, was a French naturalist and physician in Caen. He wrote numerous papers on medical subjects as well as on natural history. His main interest was in palaeontology and especially the fossils of Calcaires de Caen.
Louis Charles André Alexandre Du Mège or Dumège,, was a French scholar, archaeologist and historian.
François Depeaux was a French industrialist, art collector and patron. He was one of the defenders of the Rouen School.
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.
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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