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Title: The Story of Rouen

Author: Sir Theodore Andrea Cook

Release Date: February 4, 2008 [eBook #24519]

Language: English

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Transcriber's Notes:

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THE STORY OF ROUEN

by

THEODORE ANDREA COOK

Illustrated by Helen M. James and Jane E. Cook

[Illustration]

London: J.M. Dent & Co.
Aldine House, 29 and 30 Bedford Street
Covent Garden, W.C. 1899

All rights reserved

[Illustration: ST. MACLOU]

[Greek: TEI METRI DIDAKTRA]

PREFACE

"Est enim benignum et plenum ingenui pudoris fateri per quos
profeceris."

The story of a town must differ from the history of a nation in that
it is concerned not with large issues but with familiar and domestic
details. A nation has no individuality. No single phrase can fairly
sum up the characteristics of a people. But a town is like one face
picked out of a crowd, a face that shows not merely the experience of
our human span, but the traces of centuries that go backward into
unrecorded time. In all this slow development a character that is
individual and inseparable is gradually formed. That character never
fades. It is to be found first in the geog