REMARKABLE HOUSES AND CELEBRATED MEN.

Ancient town hall, rue de la Grosse-Horloge and rue Thouret.

Sculptured wooden houses, Grande-Rue, no 115 and 129.

House, rue aux Juifs, no 47 and 49.

House, rue Perciere, no 11.

House, rue Bouvreuil, no 4.

House, rue Etoupee, no 4.

Houses, rue des Carmes, no 69 to 77.

House, rue Caquerel, no 13.

House, rue Damiette, no 29.

Houses, rue Eau-de-Robec, no 186, 221, 223.

Houses, rue Malpalu, no 90 and 92.

Houses, rue du Change, no 2 to 8.

Houses, rue du Bac, no 28 and 30.

House, rue des Cordeliers, no 45.

Houses which are remarkable as having been those in which the following

celebrated men were born.

House in the rue de la Pie, no 4, where in 1606 the great Corneille was

born.

House in the rue des Bons-Enfants, no 132-134, where Fontenelle, was

born on the 11th february 1657.

House in the rue aux Ours, no 61. An inscription placed on this house

reminds us, that it was here, that A. Boieldieu, the celebrated

composer, was born.

House rue aux Juifs, no 9. Here Jean Jouvenet, the celebrated painter,

was born on the 21st August, 1647.

To these celebrated names we must add the following of men equally

natives of Rouen: Thomas Corneille (the brother of Peter), Lemery,

Basnage, Samuel Bochart, the fathers Berruyer, Brumoy, Daniel, Sanadon,

the painters Restout, Letellier, Sacquepee, Colombel, Lemonnier,

Gericault, mademoiselle Champmesle, madame Du Boccage, Armand Carrel,

Edward Adam, Dulong. Rouen is the birth-place of many other

distinguished men.

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