- Ansbert Of Rouen
Ansbert of Rouen (d. 695) was a Frankish Benedictine abbot, bishop and Catholic saint. Born at Chaussy-sur-Epte, tradition states that Ansbert was engaged to marriage to Saint Angadrisma before this saint became a nun. He served as chancellor at the court of Clotaire III. He became a monk and abbot of Fontenelle Abbey. He then became bishop of Rouen, as the successor of Ouen. However, he was exiled by Pepin of Heristal. - Remigius Of Rouen
Remigius or Remedius (d. 771) was the illegitimate son of Charles Martel and probably Ruodhaid. He was also the third archbishop of Rouen from 755 to 762. Along with his brothers, he was denied any claim to the legacy of his father. He became archbishop during the reign of his half brother Pippin the Younger. Remigius is also known as Saint Remigius. His feast day is January 19. - Gerard, Preceptor Of Rouen
Gerard, Preceptor of Rouen (d. 21 May 1108) was an English clergyman who eventually became Archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor of England. He was a nephew of Walkelin, Bishop of Winchester, of Simon, Abbot of Ely, and connected with the royal family. Originally a precentor in Rouen cathedral, he served as Lord Chancellor from 1085 to 1092, and he became clerk in the chapel of William Rufus, who employed him in 1095 on a diplomatic mission to the pope. - Tom Rouen
Thomas Francis Rouen (born June 9 1968 in Hinsdale, Illinois) is an American football punter is currently a free agent, and last played for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League in the 2005 season. - Rotrou, Archbishop Of Rouen
Rotrou or Rothrud was the bishop of Évreux and twenty-fifth archbishop of Rouen from 1165, a year after the death of Archbishop Hugh IV, until his own death. He was the fourth son of Henry de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Warwick, and Margaret, daughter of Geoffrey II of Perche. He was also the chief justiciar and steward of Normandy. He has a place in the history of the Kingdom of Sicily through his cousin, the queen regent Margaret of Navarre, … - Mauger, Archbishop Of Rouen
Mauger (or "Malger" according to the "Gesta Normannorum Ducum") was the son of Richard II, duke of Normandy, and Papia, daughter of Richildis of Envermeu. His brother was William of Talou, the count of Arques. Mauger was the archbishop of Rouen from c.1037 to 1054 (or 1055). His brother William was defeated in a failed rebellion against their nephew, Duke William II, near Arques in 1053, resulting in the banishment of Talou. - Joan Of Arc
Joan of Arc, or Jeanne d'Arc in French, (1412 - May 30, 1431) is a 15th century national heroine of France. She was beatified in 1909 and canonized as a saint in 1920. Joan asserted that she had visions from God which told her to recover her homeland from English domination late in the Hundred Years' War. The uncrowned King Charles VII sent her to the siege at Orléans as part of a relief mission. - Armand Carrel
Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Armand Carrel (May 8, 1800 - July 25, 1836) was a French writer. He was born at Rouen. His father was a wealthy merchant, and he received a liberal education at the college of Rouen, afterwards attending the military school at St Cyr. He had an intense admiration for the great generals of Napoleon, and his uncompromising spirit and independent views marked him out. - Pierre Corneille
Pierre Corneille was a French tragedian who was one of the three great 17th Century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine. He has been called “the founder of French tragedy” and produced plays for nearly 40 years. - Charles Nicolle
Charles Jules Henry Nicolle (September 21, 1866 Rouen - February 28, 1936) was a French bacteriologist who earned the 1928 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his identification of lice as the transmitter of epidemic typhus. - Jean Lecanuet
Jean Adrien François Lecanuet was a French politician. He was born to a family of modest means, and gravitated towards literature during his studies. He received his diploma at the age of 22, becoming the youngest "agrégé" (full professor) in France. He participated in the Second World War French Resistance movement. He was arrested by the German forces in August 1944 but managed to escape. - André Maurois
André Maurois, or Emile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog was a French author and man of letters. "André Maurois" was a pen name that became his legal name in 1947. He was born in Elbeuf and educated in Rouen, both in Normandy. During World War I he joined the French army and he served as an interpreter and later a liaison officer in the British army. - Jean-Baptiste de la Salle
Saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle (John Baptist de La Salle) (born 30 April 1651 in Reims; died 7 April 1719 in Saint-Yon, Rouen) was a French priest, educational reformer, and founder of an international educational movement, who dedicated more than forty years of his life to the education of the children of the poor. In the process, he standardized educational practices throughout France, wrote inspirational meditations on the ministry of teaching (along with catechisms, … - Pierre Cauchon
Pierre Cauchon (b. 1371 in Rheims, d. December 1442 in Rouen), bishop of Beauvais. A strong partisan of English interests in France during the latter years of the Hundred Years' War, his role in arranging Joan of Arc's downfall led most subsequent observers to condemn his extension of secular politics into an ecclesiastical trial. The verdict was overturned in 1455. - Thomas Corneille
Thomas Corneille (August 20, 1625 - December 8, 1709) was a French dramatist. He was the brother of Pierre Corneille. Born in Rouen nearly twenty years after his brother, the "great Corneille", Thomas's skill as a poet seems to have shown itself early. At the age of fifteen he composed a play in Latin which was performed by his fellow-pupils at the Jesuits' college of Rouen. His first play in the French language, "Les Engagements du hasard", was staged in 1647. - David Douillet
David Douillet (born 16 February, 1969) is a French judoka. Douillet was born in the city of Rouen. Standing at 1.96 meters (6'5") and weighing 125 kilograms(276 lbs), he won the heavyweight gold medals in the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games in Atlanta and Sydney. - Louis Bouilhet
Louis Hyacinthe Bouilhet was a French poet and dramatist. He was born at Cany, Seine Inférieure. He was a schoolfellow of Gustave Flaubert, to whom he dedicated his first work, "Miloenis" (1851), a narrative poem in five cantos, dealing with Roman manners under the emperor Commodus. His volume of poems entitled "Fossiles" attracted considerable attention, on account of the attempt therein to use science as a subject for poetry. - Hector Malot
Hector Malot (May 20, 1830 - July 17, 1907) was a French writer born in La Bouille, close to Rouen. He studied law in Rouen and Paris, but eventually literature became his passion. He worked as a dramatic critic for "Lloyd Francais" and as a literary critic for "L'Opinion Nationale". His first book, published in 1859, was "Les Amants". In total Malot wrote over 70 books. By far his most famous book is "Sans Famille" ("Nobody's Boy", 1878), … - Jean Goujon
Jean Goujon, French sculptor and architect, is one of the major figures of the French Renaissance. His early life is little known; he may have traveled in Italy. He worked in Rouen, where he executed the monument to Louis de Brézé, seigneur d'Anet, before arriving in Paris, where he collaborated with the architect Pierre Lescot at the church of Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois about 1544. He became "sculptor to the king" (Henri II of France) in 1547. - Georges D'Amboise
Georges d'Amboise, French cardinal styled Cardinal de Rouen from 1498 and minister of state, belonged to a noble family possessed of considerable influence: of his nine brothers, four were bishops. His father, Pierre d'Amboise, seigneur de Chaumont, was chamberlain to Charles VII and Louis XI and ambassador at Rome. Georges' eldest brother, Charles d'Amboise, was governor of the Île-de-France, Champagne and Burgundy, and councillor of Louis XI. - Claude Michel
Claude Michel, known as Clodion, was a French sculptor in the Rococo style. He was was born in Nancy. Here and probably in Lille he spent the earlier years of his life. In 1755 he came to Paris and entered the workshop of Lambert Sigisbert Adam, his maternal uncle, a clever sculptor. He remained four years in this workshop, and on the death of his uncle became a pupil of J. B. Pigalle. - Pierre Thomas
Pierre Thomas, sieur du Fossé was a French scholar and author, and was the son of a master of accounts at Rouen. He was sent as a child to be educated at Port Royal, and there he received his final bent towards the life of a recluse, and even of a hermit, which drew him to establish himself in the neighborhood of Port Royal des Champs. In 1661 he came to Paris, and in 1666 was arrested along with Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy, … - Ian Mahinmi
Ian Mahinmi (pronounced ; born November 5, 1986 in Rouen, France) is a French basketball player. At 6'10" and 225 lbs, he plays the position of power forward. Mahinmi was born to a Beninese father and Jamaican mother. After playing with the French National Team he signed his first contract with the club STB Le Havre (France). He played two seasons with Le Havre, averaging 9.7 points and 5.2 rebounds per game in 2005-06. - James Moore
James Moore (born 14 January, 1849, died 17 July, 1935) was a bicycle racer. He is popularly regarded as the winner of the first official cycle race in the world. He was certainly the first star of cycle racing, dominating competition for many years. - Jean Prévost
Jean Prévost was a French writer and Resistance fighter. His father was a principal in Montivilliers. After his secondary studies at the lycée Corneille in Rouen, he studied at the lycée Henri-IV in Paris under the philosopher Alain, to prepare for his entry to the École normale supérieure, in 1919. In 1926 he married Marcelle Auclair with whom he had three children (Michel, Francoise and Alain). - Pierre Fontaine
Pierre Fontaine was a French composer of the transitional era between the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, and a member of the Burgundian School of composers. While he was well-known at the time, most of his music has probably been lost. All of his surviving music is secular, and all his compositions are chansons. - Armand Salacrou
Armand Salacrou was a French dramatist. He was born in Rouen on 9 August, 1899. He died in Le Havre on 23 November, 1989. - Raymond Duchamp-Villon
Raymond Duchamp-Villon (November 5, 1876 - October 9, 1918) was a French sculptor. Duchamp-Villon was born Pierre-Maurice-Raymond Duchamp in Damville, Eure, in the Haute-Normandie region of France, the second son of Eugene and Lucie Duchamp. Of the six Duchamp children, four would become successful artists. He was the brother of: *Jacques Villon (1875-1963), painter, printmaker *Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), painter, … - David Trézéguet
David Sergio Trézéguet (born 15 October, 1977 in Rouen, France) is a French-Argentine football striker who plays for Juventus and France. - Anny Duperey
Anny Duperey (born Annie Legras on June 28, 1947 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France) is an stage, film and television actress and best-selling author. Duperey made her screen debut in the 1967 Jean-Luc Godard film, "2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle" ("Two or Three Things I Know About Her "). In the 1974 Alain Resnais film "Stavisky", she portrayed Arlette, … - Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, also referred to as Bernard le Bouyer de Fontenelle (February 11, 1657-January 9, 1757) was a French author. Fontenelle was born in Rouen, France (then the capital of Normandy). He died in Paris, having very nearly attained the age of 100 years. His mother was the sister of the great French dramatists Pierre Corneille and Thomas Corneille. He was educated at the college of the Jesuits in Rouen, … - Thomas Basin
Thomas Basin (1412-1491) was a French bishop of Lisieux and historian. He was born probably at Caudebec in Normandy, but in the devastation caused by the Hundred Years' War, his childhood was itinerant. In 1424 he went to the University of Paris, where he became a master of arts in 1429, and afterward studied law at Leuven and Pavia. He attended the Council of Florence, and was soon made canon of the church at Rouen, … - Louis Veuillot
Louis Veuillot was a French journalist and man of letters. He was born of humble parents at Boynes (Loiret). When he was five, his parents moved to Paris. With little education, he entered a lawyer's office, and was sent in 1830 to serve on a Rouen paper, and afterwards to Périgueux. He returned to Paris in 1837, and a year later visited Rome during Holy Week. There he embraced extravagant ultramontane sentiments, and became an ardent champion of Catholicism. - Guillaume D'Estouteville
Guillaume d'Estouteville (1403 - 1483) was a French ecclesiastic, was bishop of Angers, then bishop of Digne, archbishop of Rouen, prior of Saint Martin des Champs, abbot of Mont St Michel, of St Ouen at Rouen, and of Montebourg. He was made a Cardinal in the consistory of December 18, 1439 by Pope Eugene IV, and later became Cardinal Bishop of Porto-Santa Rufina, … - Gerloc
Gerloc (or Geirlaug), baptised in Rouen as Adela in 912, was the daughter of Rollo, first duke of Normandy, and his wife, Poppa of Bayeux. She was the sister of Duke William Longsword. In 935, she married William Towhead, the future count of Poitou and duke of Aquitaine, then only ten years old. She gave him two children before dying on 14 October 962: *William IV of Aquitaine *Adelaide of Aquitaine, wife of Hugh Capet - Roland Mousnier
Roland Émile Mousnier was a French historian of the early modern period in France and of the comparative studies of different civilizations. Mousnier was born in Paris and received his education at the "Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes". Between 1932 and 1947, Mousnier worked as a school teacher in Rouen and Paris. During the Second World War, Mousnier was a member of the French Resistance. - Robert Hubert
Robert Hubert (b. c. 1640, d. 28 September, 1666) was a watchmaker from Rouen, France, famous for his false confession of starting the Great Fire of London. - Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore was a French poet. She was born in Douai. Following the French Revolution, her family emigrated to Guadeloupe. In 1817 she married her second husband, the actor Prosper Lanchantin-Valmore. She published "Élégies et Romances", her first poetic work, in 1819. Her melancholy, elegiaical poems are admired for their grace and profound emotion. Marceline appearred as an actress and singer in Douai, Rouen, the 'Opéra-Comique' in Paris, … - Elise Lucet
Elise Lucet, born May 30, 1963 in Rouen (Seine-Maritime), France, is a French investigative journalist and television host. She has worked on France 3 on the evening news investigative journalism program Pieces a Conviction, and began working for France 2 on September 6, 2005, to host the program 13 heures le journal. - Suzanne Duchamp
Suzanne Duchamp was the younger sister of: *Jacques Villon nee Gaston Duchamp (1875 - 1963), painter, printmaker *Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876 - 1918), sculptor *Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968), painter, sculptor and author She began her studies at the École des Beaux-Arts in her native Rouen when she was 16. Her early works reflected impressionism and cubism. At age 21, she married a local pharmacist but quickly divorced, …
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