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otel da Bourgtheroulde, which I have already described. The old market was thus divided, into two unequal parts. The spot where the innocent _Joan of Arc_ was burnt in 1431, retains the name of _place de la Pucelle_. It is also called _place du Marche-aux-Veaux_, on account of its former destination. It is then on the old market place, that the French heroine was sacrificed to the superstition of that age. NEW MARKET. Fruit, eggs, cream cheeses, or small Neufchatel cheeses: such are the supplies to be found in this market. About fifty years ago, a gilt leaden statue, representing Louis XVth in his youth, and covered with the royal mantle, was to be seen. This monument has been replaced by the present obelisk, which furnishes an abundant supply of water to the inhabitants of this quarter. PLACE NOTRE-DAME. Before 1429, this place served as a poultry and grass market. In 1537, it was paved and enclosed with a low wall. In 1641, two stone Crosses, still visible in some ancient engravings, were placed at the two corners. In the time of _Pommeraye_, the _parvis_ Notre-Dame, was the place on which bonfires were lighted. At present it is the flower and seed market, regularly held on the sundays and fridays. PLACE DE LA CALENDE. It was formerly called _Port-Morant_, _port des navires_, or _port de Notre-Dame_, because, before the first dukes enclosed the Seine within certain limits, the vessels discharged their cargoes at this place. The house which is exactly opposite the porch of the church and on which we distinguish a dial, is the remains of the old _Hotel-Dieu_. THE ROUGEMARE. In the year 949, Otho, emperor of Germany, Louis IVth, king of France, and Arnold, count of Flanders, laid siege to the town of Rouen. The duke Richard Ist, surnamed _Sans-Peur_, made a _sortie_ by the _porte Beauvoisine_, and fell on the enemies of which he made a great slaughter. This action took place partly on the site of the present _Rouge-Mare_ (red-pool), from the blood with which it was covered. In 1450, the _Rouge-Mare_ became the horse market, which has, since the end of the last century, been transferred to the _Boulingrin_. The _Rouge-Mare_ is now the butter market. THE BOULINGRIN. The English have returned to the French that which they had borrowed of them. Formerly, people did not go to walk on the _boulevard_, but on the _boule-verd_, from which the english have made _bowling-green_, a literal transla
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