I did not intend to go to Rouen. I'm glad I did. It is pretty and rich in history.
It has more cathedrals per square inch than anywhere else I have been. The one pictured was the tallest building in the world between 1876 and 1880.
I busk by the ruins of the building where Joan of Arc was executed.
I find a quote on a sculpture
'O Jeanne, sans sepulchre et sans portrait. Toi qui savais que le tombeau des heros est le coeur des vivants' O Joan, without a sepulchre and without a portrait. You know that the tomb of heroes is the heart of the living. - Andre Malraux.
Drunk French youths buy me a chocolatine for breakfast, and give me the nickname 'solamente' (solitary)
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"The one pictured was the tallest building in the world between 1876 and 1880."
I bet it took 100 years to build.... at only four years at the top. The shame.
These French youths, still drunk in the morning, at breakfast time... the shame of it!
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