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Bindings with heraldic superlibros are characterised by the main decorative motif of the coat of arms of their former owners, making them one of the best examples of the potential of bookbindings as a documentary source. To this value as a historical document must be added the enormous variety of decorative and constructive techniques, as well as materials, that make up these bindings and that make them authentic functional works of art. Heraldic bindings are a testimony of the lives of their owners and in them are observed the distinctions that are awarded, orders and decorations, in addition to observing the aesthetic tastes and techniques available at the time of their execution. They are, therefore, a historical, artistic and technological heritage. In this work, the bindings with heraldic superlibros of members of the House of Bourbon and their dynastic links and of the city of Rouen are studied.

Summary: This contribution examines the role of the city of Rouen in the co-ratification of the Treaty of the More in 1525. On looking into the deliberations of Rouen's city council, this article provides a local perspective into the participation of cities in treaty processes, challenging the traditional view that such affairs were solely the domain of monarchs and their courts. This contribution analyses the correspondence of the Regent of France, Louise of Savoy, and the council of Rouen. The findings reveal how Rouen's City Council balanced loyalty to the French crown with efforts to preserve local interests, using diplomatic channels and delaying tactics. This case-study illustrates the complexity of power politics in 16th-century France, where cities like Rouen played a significant, yet often overlooked, role in shaping international agreements. The article contributes to broader historiographical debates on the development of modern diplomacy and the agency of cities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study of tabellionage records can reveal the economic and social organisation of medieval industries, such as cloth production in late medieval Rouen. The earliest registers from Rouen, dating from 1360 onwards, preserve acts relating to commerce, but we do not always know the people behind the recorded names, and names are rarely accompanied by professions. Furthermore, from 1415 onwards, commercial matters relating to what is called “meuble” in Middle French disappear from the records. Any investigation is therefore restricted to a narrow period (1360-1415), and professions must be sought by examining craft regulations. Three series of acts reveal the various stages of cloth production: the purchase of the wool, the costs of dyeing, and the rental of facilities for stretching the cloth before sale, the “pentheurs” (large wooden poles), at the beginning and end of the process. According to the Florentine model, the medieval cloth trade was usually dominated by merchant-drapers who bought the wool, organised its manufacture into cloth and sold the finished product. It is unclear, however, whether this model works north of the Alps, and the present study instead reveals a world of small businesses that left little room for great merchant-capitalists. The investigation also reveals the importance of financial and family networks and the roles of mutual aid and a culture of trust. Alongside merchant-entrepreneurs, there were also small artisan-entrepreneurs.

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In 1873, architect E. W. Godwin (1833‒86) embarked on a month-long trip through France’s Normandy region, accompanied by his partner, the actress Ellen Terry (1847‒1928), and their daughter Edy. A year later, Godwin published a series of articles on this excursion in a Victorian architectural periodical, The Building News. Entitled ‘Some Notes of a Month in Normandy’, the articles chronicled Godwin’s travels to Rouen, Mantes, Évreux, Lisieux, Caen, Bayeux, St Lô, and Coutances, ending in Dieppe. As would be expected of one of England’s prominent Gothic Revival architects, Godwin concentrated on the important examples of medieval architecture he encountered in what was a combined holiday and sketching tour. Nevertheless, a few human interest observations pepper his text, such as remarks on the cleanliness of provincial hotels and the quality of food and drink encountered. Compared to the autobiographical impulse of today’s travel writers, however, Godwin’s account is maddeningly self-effacing, with virtually no personal details vouchsafed. In line with his restricted focus on architectural themes, Godwin’s trip was to a large extent une répétition différente of the journey to Normandy taken by John Ruskin (1819‒1900) in 1848. Ruskin travelled throughout Normandy soon after his marriage to Euphemia Gray, visiting Boulogne, Abbeville, Rouen, Falaise, Avranches, Mont-Saint-Michel, Bayeux, Caen, and Honfleur, before arriving in Paris. The drawings of Norman cathedrals that Ruskin prepared during this trip became some of the most important illustrations to The Seven Lamps of Architecture, published in 1849, a volume Godwin referenced during his own trip through France. In order to assess Godwin’s travel account, I will make use of the concept of ‘intertextuality’ formulated in the twentieth century by the literary theorist Julia Kristeva (b. 1941). As Kristeva has posited, individual texts may be understood as participating in a matrix of relationships with previous texts. In Godwin’s case, his articles participated in a discursive field formed not only by Ruskin’s The Seven Lamps of Architecture but also by the accounts of Norman architecture published by the eminent French medievalist Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814‒79) and restoration architect Aymar Pierre Verdier (1819‒80), in addition to the drawings by Godwin’s British colleagues Eden Nesfield (1835‒88) and William Burges (1827‒81), all of whom Godwin mentions. Kristeva’s concept of intertextuality will help clarify the extent to which Godwin’s travel narrative can be understood primarily as a contribution to this network of commentary. Finally, reading Godwin’s travel account as part of this textual and graphic fabric can also serve to identify the emergence of his individual interests. Following in Ruskin’s footsteps—literally and textually—Godwin began to articulate in the course of his ‘Notes’ the principles of ‘judicious eclecticism’ that would eventually differentiate him from Ruskin and form the basis of his later career.

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Partiendo de una tradición historiográfica consolidada sobre el culto, los santuarios y las peregrinaciones de san Miguel en Europa, la contribución analiza un caso de estudio particular que involucró a la tradición micaélica del Gargano en la competencia entre algunas abadías normandas en los siglos XI y XII: el priorato Saint-Michel-du-Mont-Gargan, dependiente de Saint-Ouen de Rouen. Tras una reconstrucción del nacimiento y desarrollo de dicho priorato, el trabajo se centra en la historia de Saint-Ouen, para enmarcar el papel del culto al Arcángel y la función de esta institución menor dentro de la estrategia político-religiosa seguida por la abadía madre durante los años de formación del principado normando, tras las invasiones vikingas.

At the Antoine Bourdelle museum in Paris, the discovery of some samples of dyed fabrics amongst the personal affairs of the architect-decorator Michel Dufet, who was Antoine Bourdelle’s son-in-law and curator at the museum, with his wife Rhodia Dufet-Bourdelle, has led back to the creator of these fabrics, Michel Dufet’s maternal grandfather, the chemist Charles Henri Grosrenaud. The history discovered involved other workers from Mulhouse involved in the indienne printing business over several generations. Starting out from these apparently insignificant objects, the work of Grosrenaud as a tinctorial chemist could be replaced in its nineteenth-century context characterised by emulation in the field of the colour chemistry. The analysis of documents held by three different museums helped bring the story of the Grosrenaud family back to life: the Michel Dufet archives at the Antoine Bourdelle museum in Paris, which have a particularly rich collection of manuscript letters belong to Charles Henri Grosrenaud; the museum of textile printing at Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin), which keeps the drawings by Michel Dufet’s great grandfather, drawings for a, indienne printing works, and also a record of workers in the trade in Alsace, established by a university researcher specialised in the textile industry; and the industrial museum of the Corderie Vallois, at Notre-Dame-de-Bondeville (Seine-Maritime), which has collected registers of printed samples of indiennes produced in the Rouen region. This article offers suggestions for further research on Michel Dufet and for the appreciation of his work, which has been little studied to date.

There are seven known manuscripts of Sancho IV of Castile’s Lucidario, a theological and encyclopedic work composed around 1290 as part of the king’s efforts to condemn the scientific excesses of his father, Alfonso X. This article identifies a new testimony in the ms. Rouen, Bibliothèque municipale Villon A283. After offering a description of the manuscript and a study of its production and arrival in Rouen, I examine its place in the stemma of the Lucidario, and evaluate its utility for a new edition of the book, currently in progress.

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The article examines the results of a “citizen consultation” organised by local public officials through a questionnaire-based consultation approach to the management of urban and peri-urban forests. The study shows how forests are at the same time strong, complex, and ambivalent policy levers in a public consultation process. The article, first of all, specifies the economic context of the case study, namely that of a metropolis in the north of France with a population of 500,000 people. It then presents the methods and the occasionally divergent results of the metropolitan “dialogue” survey (dated 2020, n = 375) on the one hand, and a university survey (dated 2020, n = 774) on the other. The results obtained reveal the challenges, difficulties, and limits of a participatory approach, given the high degree of ambivalence and contrast in the way population groups relate to woodland and the representative/participatory systems. The article highlights the complexity involved in the management of woodlands and their use as part of a political process that is both participatory and sustainable.

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Dos grandes relieves de madera de mediados del siglo XVI, conservados en el Musée départemental des antiquités de Rouen, representan a indígenas desnudos y el comercio de madera en la colonia francesa de Brasil, llamada France Antarctique. Diseñados para formar parte de un friso que adornaba la fachada del llamado Hôtel de l'île du Brésil, estos paneles son una representación tangible de las ambiciones transatlánticas francesas en la temprana modernidad y han sido estudiados desde una perspectiva histórica y poscolonial. El propósito de este artículo es proporcionar un nuevo análisis visual de su iconografía, que está dominada por un elemento crucial pero pasado por alto: el paisaje ventoso. Los vientos son también los eternos compañeros de la Fortuna, que de hecho está representada en uno de los paneles como una madre amamantando a su hijo, según un modelo dibujado por Leonardo, entre otros. Al leer los paneles de Rouen junto con la literatura producida en el mismo contexto (Montaigne, Ronsard), la iconografía de los relieves surge aquí no como una representación inexacta de los pueblos indígenas, sino como una alegoría visual culta de un nuevo comienzo en una nueva tierra, al igual que André Thevet cita a Virgilio en la misma página en que bautiza la zona de Río de Janeiro como France Antarctique.

In Rouen, the apprenticeship contracts seem to be scarce in the registers of the notaries (tabellion), because of archival losses after 1421. However, the frequency of their registration suffices to gather a corpus as significant as in other cities. Nonetheless, the comparison with the archives of the commune of Rouen and of the plumbers-pewterers suggests that ordinary apprenticeship contracts were not written down and registered. The study of the form of the contracts separates the stereotyped phrases from the singular motives that led to draw up a notarial deed. Independently from craft guilds, the parties, especially orphans or adult apprentices, resorted to written agreements to make sure that their obligations were reciprocal or that financially substantial and/or long term commitments were honoured.

Urban green spaces constitute a real issue in the current logic of sustainable development, as much as these spaces contribute to the well-being of populations and to make cities more sustainable. However, in a context of land pressure and urban densification, these spaces are increasingly under pressure and fragmented. An alternative could be to reduce the size of private spaces to create more public green spaces, which bring more social and ecological benefits than private green spaces. Based on a field survey conducted in the urban unit of Rouen (France), the article focuses on the factors that explain the will to substitute private space for public green space.

This paper explores, in the context of the Anglo-Norman world, some of the characteristics implicit in ideas of the state: relatively fixed frontiers, a sovereign authority with the power to maintain justice, raise taxes and deploy armies, and to command the allegiance of its inhabitants. Normandy and England are considered both separately and together as an “empire”. New research areas and themes relating to power and statebuilding are considered: the role of the ruler’s wife, ritual and display, the architectural context of power, and of the importance of cities, especially London. The need for a wider approach to the history of power away from the history of kings, including lords and ecclesiastics, is stressed, and developments within a British context, in Wales and Scotland, are briefly considered. The paper concludes by emphasizing the fragility of developments: statebuilding was not consistent or inevitable. Twelfth-century Normandy itself illustrates some of the ambiguities of defining states and statebuilding in this era.

La découverte de nouveaux documents issus d’archives judiciaires permet de mieux appréhender l’organisation des voyages des ports normands vers le Brésil. Les départs avaient généralement lieu à l’automne ou au début de l’hiver, les retours s’effectuant durant l’été. Pour réduire les risques et échapper aux flottes portugaises, les navires voyageaient en convois, souvent de trois à cinq navires dont les caractéristiques peuvent être présentées grâce à plusieurs contrats de construction conservés dans des registres notariés. La mise en oeuvre de ces expéditions nécessitait d’importants capitaux rassemblés par des marchands rouennais. Parmi eux, figurent plusieurs familles d’origine espagnole de niveau international qui pouvaient parfois s’associer avec des investisseurs de Paris, de Lyon, ou de Champagne. Les quantités de bois‑brésil rapportées en Normandie étaient considérables. Une partie de ces marchandises fut très tôt réexpédiée à Paris, la Rochelle et jusqu’à Anvers, Rouen étant alors un entrepôt international de tout premier ordre. Le bois‑brésil était utilisé comme produit tinctorial mais aussi dans l’architecture, notamment au château de Fontainebleau (demeure favorite de François Ier), ainsi que dans la fabrication de meubles ou de petits objets de luxe. Ces sources nouvelles montrent enfin que les expéditions des frères Verrazzano n’ont pas ouvert la route du Brésil aux marchands français, mais que ces échanges ont commencé beaucoup plus tôt, même si une accélération de ce trafic est probable au cours de la décennie 1520.

This study deals with Norman poetry: it examines the authors, the texts, and especially the literary genres to which they belonged, in the period between the XIth and XIIth centuries. Following a chronological order, the analysis starts from XIth-century Normandy: the main political and religious centres, Rouen, Caen and Le Bec, were also the most important places of poetic output. Most of these writings are hagiographies or encomia of important figures in the ducal and royal courts. In this regard, Serlo of Bayeux stands out as a clear example: his poems are valuable historical evidence for the Norman relationship with the English and their king in 1105-1106. In England, after the bold enterprise of William the Conqueror, Norman, Flemish, French and Italian learned men had a very important role in cultural life. York and Canterbury were the most prominent centres for versification. The study ends by focusing on the numerous verses contained in the historical works of Orderic Vitalis, William of Malmesbury and Henry of Huntingdon.

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Objectives: To assess the phenotypic susceptibility of the E157Q polymorphism in HIV-1 integrase (IN) and the virological outcome of patients infected with E157Q-mutated virus initiating an IN inhibitor (INI)-based regimen.Methods: This was a multicentre study assessing IN sequences from INI-naive patients among 17 French HIV clinical centres. E157Q site-directed mutants in pNL4.3 and pCRF02_AG contexts were assessed in a recombinant phenotypic assay.Results: Prevalence of the E157Q polymorphism was 2.7% among 8528 IN sequences from INI-naive patients and its distribution was 1.7%, 5.6% and 2.2% in B, CRF02_AG and various non-B subtypes, respectively. Thirty-nine INI-naive patients with E157Q-mutated virus initiated an INI-based regimen. Among them, 15 had a viral load (VL) <50 copies/mL at initiation and virological suppression was maintained during the first year of follow-up in all but two exhibiting a viral blip. Twenty-four patients had a VL > 50 copies/mL at the time of INI-based regimen initiation. Among them eight were receiving a first-line regimen and the only two patients who did not reach VL < 50 copies/mL at week 24 were receiving elvitegravir. The 16 remaining patients were ART experienced in virological failure with drug-resistant viruses displaying several virological outcomes independently of the genotypic susceptibility score. Phenotypic analyses showed a fold change in EC50 of 0.6, 0.9 and 1.9 for raltegravir, dolutegravir and elvitegravir, respectively, in a subtype B context, and 1.1, 1.9 and 2.4 for raltegravir, dolutegravir and elvitegravir, respectively, in a CRF02_AG context.Conclusions: Assessment of virological response in 39 patients initiating an INI-based regimen with E157Q-mutated virus, in combination with phenotypic analysis, suggests that particular attention should be paid to antiretroviral-naive patients and dolutegravir should be preferentially used in these patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At a time when university hospitals are experiencing significant economic and organisational changes, the CHU of Rouen has committed itself to carrying out an inventory of its intangible cultural heritage. The project was initiated by the hospital’s cultural delegation with the support of the regional cultural services (DRAC Normandie). This project was not considered merely as a measure of heritage safeguarding, nor as the recognition of the constituent parts of the hospital community’s identity. Based on the voluntary participation of many members of the hospital staff, it sought to answer the existential questions that surround the meaning of their everyday life practices. Though this undertaking was established over the long-term, according to its ambition and the vast scale of the territory concerned, this article looks back on an approach that underlines the operational aspects of an inventory of the intangible cultural heritage. Treated as a form of introspection and recognition, the inventory became invested by the hospital community in order to help it overcome the pain, when changes lead to questions about inner principles and values. The intangible cultural heritage emerged as a cure taking part in a process of resilience.

Before the 1967 land control law, the “Basse Seine” saw the birth of the first two french town-planning agencies: the “Société rouennaise d’études urbaines” (SORETUR) on march 1963 and the “Société d’études urbaines de la région du Havre” (SERH) on december 1965. These two studies civic companies that were almost twins, were created under the protection of the “Société centrale pour l’équipement du territoire”, a subdivision of the “Caisse des dépôts et consignations”. The SORETUR and the SERH came into existence without real intent, of special local conjuncture, of opportunities grasped by ambitious and experienced technicians and public servants. If the idea to implant some decentralized survey structures to lay out, localy, master-plans of urban areas commanded attention in administration little by little, these unpublished creations owe still much to a very well-disposed regional context. The “Basse Seine” was indeed, since the end of the 50’s, a pilot region in reformation of administration as well as in planning. Beyond the first two town-planning agencies, were there created the first study body of metropolitan area and the first public land control authorized to collect tax. Thus, before being transformed into an association and respectively take, in 1974 and 1976, the names of “Agence d’urbanisme de la région du Havre” (AURH) and “Association rouennaise d’études d’urbanisme” (ARETUR), the SERH and the SORETUR trumped up during more or less ten years their experimental structure reputation, taking the characteristic features of all the following town-planning agencies : multidisciplinarity and youth of the staff, implication of their permanent officials in trade union moevment, associative or political activity and their financial weakness.

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The sources for the circulation of books in Rouen during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries are particularly rich, and for some of them are still waiting to be exploited, especially in terms of the transmission of texts.From a fragment of a “loan register” from Saint-Ouen (1372-1378) and the records of deliberations conserved for the chapter of Notre-Dame of Rouen (1367-1493), it is proposed here, for these two libraries, to analyse principally loans, but also other forms of book circulation (sales, exchanges…, excluding bequests and donations): what were the terms of manuscript loan? who benefited from the circulation of books? which texts circulated in Rouen at the end of the Middle Ages? One of the last points, which is only hardly evoked here, concerns the vocabulary used during the lending process.

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The type of cold anti-cyclonic winter weather represents a climatic situation that reinforces the stability of the low atmospheric layers. It creates ideal conditions for the occurrence of temperature inversions (the air is cooler in the lower layers than in the upper layers). These phenomena favor the blockage in the air of the atmospheric pollution particles and accentuate their concentration. The present paper aims to study such a type of situation occurred in the month of December 2013. The comparative statistical analysis of the local climatic conditions and of the pollution levels based on hourly data (wind speed and directions, types of weather, temperatures at two altitude levels and PM10 concentration in the air) intends to highlight the role of temperature inversions in the activation of air pollution alerts. Its aim is also to better understand the pollution episodes that affect the Agglomeration community of Rouen and the Valley of the Seine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the sixteenth century, the city of Dieppe had an important and well-developed public water system which may be seen as an early illustration of a public health service and as an aspect of town planning. Not without difficulty, a gravitational aqueduct was built by the engineer Pierre Toustain, carrying spring water to the city over a distance of some 6.7 kilometres. Part of this aqueduct still survives. In 1579, the water flowed from no fewer than sixteen decorative fountains, symbols of the city’s prestige. In 1617, an original mechanical fountain ‘in the shape of a rock’ was constructed in honour of a visit to the city by Louis XIII. Inspired by the works of the famous engineer Salomon de Caus of Dieppe, this fountain charmed the population with its dancing waters and artificial singing birds.

Soon will be completed the Recensement des vitraux anciens de la France, France’s general inventory of stained-glass windows from the Middle Ages to the end of the Ancien Régime, which has been carried out since 1972 under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture, in charge since 1979 of the Inventaire général. The results of this methodical and exhaustive inventory are published at regular intervals in works which are designed as tools for research, providing precise critical documentation covering all the works in this particular field of the national heritage, objectively and without hierarchical judgement. The survey work has drawn attention to stained–glass windows as an extremely rich and varied source, informing problematics shared by other disciplines in art history (technical usages, problems relating to artistic patronage, to the diffusion of forms, etc.) An overview of the documentation accumulated over the years and of a certain number of research projects inspired by the inventory experience leads to an evaluation of the scientific domain of stained-glass, a domain which has developed considerably thanks to the broadening vision within which it is now studied.

This case study deals with sports and leisure activities on the Seine River, and its banks, as well as in the way the inhabitants of Rouen used and transformed this space in the interwar period. By analyzing written sources - administrative files, minutes books of the city council, regional press (Normandie-Sports, Journal de Rouen, La dépêche de Rouen et deNormandie), statutes of associations -, along with semi-structured interviews, and iconographic funds, this study will show how swimming, and water sports are all important elements of urban life. The quays of the city are first and foremost dedicated to the port centered industrial and commercial developments found in the center as well as in the outskirts ; but the island « île Lacroix » houses leisure facilities, such as pontoons, boat ramps, and sunbathing and swimming areas. Indeed, most of the aquatic sports organizations, whether private clubs or community centers, are concentrated on this site, which offers the inhabitants of Rouen privileged access to the water. Secondly, the evolution of the architecture of sports facilities along the Seine illustrates the initiative of architects to adapt their plans to the constraints of the estuarine site. The building of sports centers, gymnasiums, and concert halls proved so difficult that the people of Rouen turned to the construction of big sports facilities, thus requiring the support of the public authorities, i.e. a swimming pool, or an aquatic sports stadium. In conclusion, there are numerous ways to enjoy the Seine River ; such as watching sports demonstrations, boating or canoeing - whether competitive or leisurely - or by just enjoying the view.

The comparative analysis of several texts dating back from the 10th and 11th centuries, among which the Planctus on the death of Guillaume the long sword, the volumes II and III of the work by Dudon of St Quentin, the History of France by Richer of Reims and the Gesta of Jumièges, brings to the establishment that all these texts, in various degrees, probably derive from one narrative source – lost now –: A life of Guillaume the long sword, second earl of Normandy (927-942). Most certainly written in the monastery of St Mesmin of Micy (Loiret), some time between 950 and 963, this work is to be ascribed to Annon, abbot of Micy and Jumièges (died in 970/973), a man who, for some years, has also been identified as the author of the lives of saint Aycadre and saint Hugues of Jumièges as well as of the life of saint Eucher of Orleans. The research which is being currently carried out notably deals with an attempt at rebuilding the synopsis of the Vita and with the origins of the volumes II and III by Dudon, these books being acknowledged now as a simple rewriting of the Vita Guillelmi by Annon, and no longer as the founding text of the historiography of the first two earls.

The article discusses the printing, editorial, and publishing history of the medieval chivalry novel "Richard sans Peur" in Normandy, France, from the late 16th century to the early 19th centuries. A table which chronologically lists the novel's Norman editions from 1597 to 1845 is included. It discusses the publishing of chivalry romances in the French cities of Rouen and Troyes at the turn of the 17th century and publishers and printers including the publishing house Costé founded by Louis I Costé, Jean-Baptiste I Besongne, Jean-François Behourt, and Pierre Seyer. The novel's editions published in the French cities of Caen and Falaise during the 18th and 19th centuries by publishers including Pierre-Jean-Aimé Chalopin are also mentioned.

The article discusses the translation, or ceremony, and installation of the body of the virgin and martyr Sainte Colombe from a cemetery in Rome, Italy, to a convent in Rouen, France, in 1697. It examines an unsigned letter which details the process written from June 24th to July 5, 1697 and addressed to the discalced Augustinian and librarian Father Léonard de Sainte-Catherine, based in Paris, France. Topics of discussion include the body being conserved at the Augustinians' church upon its arrival from Rome in February 1697, the solemn ceremony and its attendance, and the convent's relations with the local authorities.

This article analyses how, in Normandy, churchmen dealt with the question of evaluating votes at episcopal elections. When did they become aware of the problem and which strategies did they develop to gain control over a potential conflict situation? The analysis shows that three factors (schismatic papal elections, the establishment of the cathedral chapter as exclusive electoral body, and the drop of ducal influence) prompted Norman churchmen to consider the problem of evaluating votes.

The Benedictine abbey of Saint-Amand at Rouen preserves amongst its archives, now at Archives départementales de la Seine-Maritime, an account’s roll which during the period from 1387 to 1397 was annotated by several receivers. The account’s roll reveals the abbey’s financial crisis, the collapse of its seigneurial revenues and the receivers' attempt to rebuild the acount towards the end of the XIVth century.

Abstract: In this paper, we are interested in the statistical forecasting of the daily mean PM10 concentration. Hourly concentrations of PM10 have been measured in the city of Rouen, in Haute-Normandie, France. Located at northwest of Paris, near the south side of Manche sea and heavily industrialised. We consider three monitoring stations reflecting the diversity of situations: an urban background station, a traffic station and an industrial station near the cereal harbour of Rouen. We have focused our attention on data for the months that register higher values, from December to March, on years 2004–2009. The models are obtained from the winter days of the four seasons 2004/2005 to 2007/2008 (training data) and then the forecasting performance is evaluated on the winter days of the season 2008/2009 (test data). We show that it is possible to accurately forecast the daily mean concentration by fitting a function of meteorological predictors and the average concentration measured on the previous day. The values of observed meteorological variables are used for fitting the models and are also considered for the test data. We have compared the forecasts produced by three different methods: persistence, generalized additive nonlinear models and clusterwise linear regression models. This last method gives very impressive results and the end of the paper tries to analyze the reasons of such a good behavior. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

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Among the most ambitious and comprehensive projects for urban modernization in the nineteenth century was that of Paris where the prefect of the Department of the Seine, Baron Georges- Eugène Haussmann, under the auspices of the Second Empire of Napoleon III, engaged in a thorough-going program of demolition, street replanning, and reconstruction. Although much of the earlier fabric of Paris was destroyed, the major medieval monuments were largely preserved. This article considers the question of how preserved buildings, especially cathedrals, functioned in renovated cities and takes as its case studies Paris and Rouen. Like Paris, Rouen was a rapidly expanding economic center during the last quarter of the nineteenth century and was similarly reworked urbanistically. It too had a major medieval cathedral to be reckoned with. As this article demonstrates, the ways in which these cathedrals could and should represent the national past were the subject of considerable debate through the nineteenth century. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article discusses mechanical clocks from the 14th to the 16th century in Normandy, France. The author discusses various sources related to the history of clocks in Normandy. He studies and describes the clocks' technical aspects such as the weight mechanism and the chime system. The development of the clock and the escapement such as the mainspring and the pendulum are explored. Also discussed are Normandy's first clocks towards the end of the 14th century such as the Gros-Horloge of Rouen and its belfry and the clock of Évreux, including the reconstruction of its tower in 1491. Further topics include the installation and reparation of clocks including clock keepers, or gardians, such as Jehan de Felains and clock makers such as Armand Benet.

The article focuses on women in asylums of the Seine-Infèrieure, in France. Asylums in the area of the Seine-Infèrieure have always been full, and their occupants were mostly women from the middle class. The women were committed largely due to what is called in French "nervosisme," a trouble of the nervous system caused by boredom and unemployment, although some of those cases were explainable by hereditary causes. The article also highlights the reasons women suffer from alienation, and differentiates it from male alienation.

The career of Viscountess Emma, in the second half of the 12th century, was indeed a mysterious one… Between Normandy, England and the Paris region, she farmed out the income of the duchy, engaged in trade and appeared in the obituary registers of ecclesiastical institutions. King Henry II, his example followed by high-ranking members of his court, lent her his support, while she frequented the citizen elite, the merchants and the money-lenders involved in the emergence of the Commune of Rouen. Two of her sons played an active part in the governing of the town, but nothing is known of the social origins of the Viscountess, who was never considered in association with a husband, yet rose to positions of importance and took on responsibilities rarely assumed at that time by a woman acting in her own right.

Abstract: Geographical societies were established in many provincial cities of France during the final quarter of the nineteenth century. Through lectures and publications, these organizations promoted popular geographies at a time when academic geography was in its infancy. The Geographical Society of Normandy was founded at Rouen in 1879 and survived for six decades. Unlike some of its counterparts, it did not provide commercial information after its early years nor did it receive funding from the local chamber of commerce. Its annual Bulletins presented aspects of popular geography at the time and elucidated views held by explorers, colonial administrators and other contributors. Tales of expeditions to distant lands were reported enthusiastically, but assessments of opportunities for European settlement were not always optimistic. European affairs rose to prominence in the life of the Society in the years surrounding World War I. Its popular geographies conveyed in public lectures continued to enjoy success but contacts with academic geographers were intermittent. Largely forgotten geographical societies, such as that in Normandy, played a significant role in raising knowledge of the world before geography became firmly established as a university discipline. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

As it is forbidden to deliver the results of the 1990 census at the enumeration district level, an evaluation pattern has been created by a geomarketing company. Thanks to the real data we have for the city of Rouen, we have measured the quality of this evaluation and we have shown how much the addition of the enumeration districts within a grid strengthens the interest of such a process.

Species identification of the components of various duck breeds has revealed that the lowest identifiable number of components depends on the breed. The results (shown on the agarose gel) of a species-specific PCR reaction for Rouen ducks were less intense than the results for the same amount of components from other popular duck breeds, suggesting differences in the Rouen duck genome. Therefore, the present study aimed to identify part of the Rouen duck's gene sequences and to develop two new primer pairs. The first pair enables breed-independent identification of duck DNA, and the second distinguishes Rouen ducks from Chinese and Indian Runner ducks. The sequencing reaction yielded sequences of 1386 bp in length, and the identified sequence differs by around 7% from the sequences of Chinese duck species. The detected sequence contributes to improving species identification methods for duck DNA. On its basis, two primers for the identification of duck DNA were designed. The first allows for DNA amplification with the same sensitivity regardless of duck breed. The second primer's pair is breed specific, and it distinguishes Rouen ducks from Chinese and Indian Runner ducks. Both methods are very sensitive (0.05%). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]