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Title: Rouen, It's History and Monuments
A Guide to Strangers

Author: Theodore Licquet

Release Date: July 2, 2006 [EBook #18740]

Language: English

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ROUEN

ITS HISTORY AND MONUMENTS;

A

GUIDE TO STRANGERS

BY THEOD. LICQUET,
MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ROUEN, ETC.

With a Map of the Town and Five Views.

ABRIDGED, AND TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH
BY M.D.G.

ROUEN:
EDWARD FRERE, QUAI DE PARIS,
Near the suspension Bridge.
MDCCCXL.

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Rouen.

HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION.

Caesar, in his Commentaries does not speak of Rouen; Pomponius Mela, does
not mention it in his Geography; Ptolemy is the first author who has
noticed it. This observation alone will shew the absurdity of the
numerous etymologies assigned to its name of Rothomagus, of which we
have made Rouen. The least unlikely are those which have been taken from
the primitive language of the country; but, even then we can only form
conjectures more or less vague, as, in deriving Rothomagus from two
celtic words, some have considered that this name signifies a great
town; others, a town on the bank of a river; while others again a town
where duties were paid.

Ptolemy then gives us a commencement to the history of Rouen. In his
lifetime, that is to say, during the first part of the second-century,
Rouen bore