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1. A French author of great knowledge and ingenuity, Mr Messance, receiver of the taillies in the election of St Etienne, endeavours to shew that the poor do more work in cheap than in dear years, by comparing the quantity and value of the goods made upon those different occasions in three different manufactures; one of coarse woollens, carried on at Elbeuf; one of linen, and another of silk, both which extend through the whole generality of Rouen
2. If you except Rouen and Bourdeaux, there is little trade or industry in any of the parliament towns of France; and the inferior ranks of people, being chiefly maintained by the expense of the members of the courts of justice, and of those who come to plead before them, are in general idle and poor
3. The great trade of Rouen and Bourdeaux seems to be altogether the effect of their situation
4. Rouen is necessarily the entrepot of almost all the goods which are brought either from foreign countries, or from the maritime provinces of France, for the consumption of the great city of Paris
5. We carried on towards Picardy we had already passed through Harfleur and followed the Seine valley towards Rouen
6. Once again we were shunted into a siding and as we were stood around smoking a French wheel tapper came along testing the wheels so we asked him if he spoke English and he told us a little so we asked him what Rouen was famous for and he replied
7. “But why?” asked Claude, as he stood on the platform, with the train to Rouen chuffing beside him
8. “The wedding of Captain Rouen to Lynette of the Golden Treaty alliance
9. Although, secretly Rouen loved his cavalry boots
10. “Pire, Rouen,” he pointed and chose seven more judging by the cut of their shoulders, eyes and weapons
11. The Baron Rouen of Loest
12. Corwin, Pire, Rouen and the General stared at the faint trail that Murphy had found on his aerial surveys
13. 'The marriage will take place in the month before Michaelmas in the seigneur's chapel on his estate near Rouen
14. Beaufort had been present in Rouen when Joan of Arc was burnt at the stake and had been a leading figure behind her death
15. 'They were part of what Somerset left behind when he surrendered Rouen
16. Reckoned it happened in Rouen when she was a little girl
17. Yonville-l'Abbaye (so called from an old Capuchin abbey of which not even the ruins remain) is a market-town twenty-four miles from Rouen, between the Abbeville and Beauvais roads, at the foot of a valley watered by the Rieule, a little river that runs into the Andelle after turning three water-mills near its mouth, where there are a few trout that the lads amuse themselves by fishing for on Sundays
18. Up to 1835 there was no practicable road for getting to Yonville, but about this time a cross-road was made which joins that of Abbeville to that of Amiens, and is occasionally used by the Rouen wagoners on their way to Flanders
19. , article I, which forbade all persons not having a diploma to practise medicine; so that, after certain anonymous denunciations, Homais had been summoned to Rouen to see the procurer of the king in his own private room; the magistrate receiving him standing up, ermine on shoulder and cap on head
20. With her other hand she was pulling along a poor puny little fellow, his face covered with scrofula, the son of a Rouen hosier, whom his parents, too taken up with their business, left in the country
21. They were talking of a troupe of Spanish dancers who were expected shortly at the Rouen theatre
22. At last, however, Leon said that he should have, one of these days, to go to Rouen on some office business
23. At last, Charles, having shut the door, asked him to see himself what would be the price at Rouen of a fine daguerreotypes
24. Every day for a month Hivert carried boxes, valises, parcels for him from Yonville to Rouen and from Rouen to Yonville; and when Leon had packed up his wardrobe, had his three arm-chairs restuffed, bought a stock of neckties, in a word, had made more preparations than for a voyage around the world, he put it off from week to week, until he received a second letter from his mother urging him to leave, since he wanted to pass his examination before the vacation
25. When the moment for the farewells had come, Madame Homais wept, Justin sobbed; Homais, as a man of nerve, concealed his emotion; he wished to carry his friend's overcoat himself as far as the gate of the notary, who was taking Leon to Rouen in his carriage
26. They gathered around the sunset on the side of Rouen and then swiftly rolled back their black columns, behind which the great rays of the sun looked out like the golden arrows of a suspended trophy, while the rest of the empty heavens was white as porcelain
27. So when I was studying pharmacy at Rouen, I boarded in a boarding house; I dined with the professors
28. She bought a Gothic prie-dieu, and in a month spent fourteen francs on lemons for polishing her nails; she wrote to Rouen for a blue cashmere gown; she chose one of Lheureux's finest scarves, and wore it knotted around her waist over her dressing-gown; and, with closed blinds and a book in her hand, she lay stretched out on a couch in this garb
29. She was an actress at Rouen, whom he kept; and when he had pondered over this image, with which, even in remembrance, he was satiated—
30. Two days later, in the "Final de Rouen," there was a long article on the show
31. He sent to Rouen for Dr
32. It was the paragraph he intended for the "Fanal de Rouen
33. But the most famous surgeons also made mistakes; and that is what no one would ever believe! People, on the contrary, would laugh, jeer! It would spread as far as Forges, as Neufchatel, as Rouen, everywhere! Who could say if his colleagues would not write against him
34. Thus she wanted to have a very handsome ridding-whip that was at an umbrella-maker's at Rouen to give to Rodolphe
35. She was to leave Yonville as if she was going on some business to Rouen
36. He had great difficulty in getting back to his seat, for his elbows were jerked at every step because of the glass he held in his hands, and he even spilt three-fourths on the shoulders of a Rouen lady in short sleeves, who feeling the cold liquid running down to her loins, uttered cries like a peacock, as if she were being assassinated
37. First they spoke of her illness, although Emma interrupted Charles from time to time, for fear, she said, of boring Monsieur Leon; and the latter told them that he had come to spend two years at Rouen in a large office, in order to get practice in his profession, which was different in Normandy and Paris
38. By the side of a Parisienne in her laces, in the drawing-room of some illustrious physician, a person driving his carriage and wearing many orders, the poor clerk would no doubt have trembled like a child; but here, at Rouen, on the harbour, with the wife of this small doctor he felt at his ease, sure beforehand he would shine
39. They were both cardinals and archbishops of Rouen
40. The next morning she set out in the "Hirondelle" to go to Rouen to consult Monsieur Leon, and she stayed there three days
41. One morning, when she had gone, as usual, rather lightly clothed, it suddenly began to snow, and as Charles was watching the weather from the window, he caught sight of Monsieur Bournisien in the chaise of Monsieur Tuvache, who was driving him to Rouen
42. At last Lheureux explained that he had a very good friend, Vincart, a broker at Rouen, who would discount these four bills
43. But the Lormeaux no longer lived at Rouen
44. One of these days I shall turn up at Rouen, and we'll go the pace together
45. Once, however, a wretched-looking man, rubicund and bald, came to her house, saying he had been sent by Monsieur Vincart of Rouen
46. She stayed there all day long, torpid, half dressed, and from time to time burning Turkish pastilles which she had bought at Rouen in an Algerian's shop
47. Then suddenly he saw her in the garden at Tostes, on a bench against the thorn hedge, or else at Rouen in the streets, on the threshold of their house, in the yard at Bertaux
48. No one now came to see them, for Justin had run away to Rouen, where he was a grocer's assistant, and the druggist's children saw less and less of the child, Monsieur Homais not caring, seeing the difference of their social position, to continue the intimacy
49. Thus, for six consecutive months, one could read in the "Fanal de Rouen" editorials such as these—
50. At Rouen they had found the bridge destroyed, and the town – on the far side of the water – heavily fortified
