Talk:Rouen

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I added citation for William the Conqueror moving his residence to Caen. Swiftkick98 (talk) 23:03, 24 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This is confusing: "Rouen (population 110,000) is a city situated on the Seine river in Normandy, northern France. Population of the metropolitan area (in French: aire urbaine) at the 1999 census was 518,316... Rouen is part of Agglomération de Rouen Haute-Normandie which gathers 34 towns and 391,375 inhabitants" - does a large part of the metro area lie outside the agglomeration? If not the populations are wrong... if so, it is a bit counterintuitive! --VivaEmilyDavies 18:16, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

You are confusing two different things. On the one hand is the Communauté d'agglomération de Rouen, which is an administrative unit, on the other hand is the metropolitan area (aire urbaine) of Rouen, which is not an administrative unit, but a geographical concept. Check

communes that are inside the metropolitan area, because some refused to join in, that's why there are less inhabitants living in the communauté d'agglomération than in the metropolitan area. Hardouin

20:25, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

This page says the astronomical clock in Gros Horloge street is from the 16th Century; the astronomical clock page says 14th Century. Anyone know which is correct? Moonraker12 12:05, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

According to fr:Gros Horloge: L'horloge enchâssée dans l'arche est l'une des plus anciennes de France : le mouvement a été fabriqué en 1389. L'horloge en elle-même a été installée en 1587, L'arche a été édifiée entre 1527 et 1529. So the arch in which it is placed is early C16th, the clock surroundings are late C16th, but the clock movement itself is late C14th. It depends what the meaning of "astronomical clock" is... Man vyi 14:34, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that; I've fixed them both to fit. Moonraker12 14:12, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This article contains a translation of Rouen from fr.wikipedia.

David V Houston (talk) 20:33, 14 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Rouen cathedral used to read Notre dame cathedral, which is incorrect because The Notre Dame cathedral is a completely separate cathedral in Paris

There are something like 85 cathedrals in France (I mean "bishop's churches" that is the meaning of the word "cathedral") and 33 out of 85 are called Notre-Dame. Better to have a bit of basic knowledge before adding things about subjects you do not know.

Nortmannus (talk) 19:04, 13 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Why does the article so tactfully fail to mention the civilian French casualties of the Allied bombing raids on Rouen in 1944? Ontologix (talk) 03:52, 7 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

What is missing from the somewhat recently created city timeline article? Please add relevant content! Contributions welcome. Thank you. -- M2545 (talk) 10:18, 11 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Material from Rouen was split to History of Rouen on 29 May 2017 from this version. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted so long as the latter page exists. Please leave this template in place to link the article histories and preserve this attribution.

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Hi M2545, I just happened to look at the article for Rouen (mainly because I drove past the other day and was interested to find out about the place). It struck me as odd that the article talks mainly about "technicalities", while the history has been moved to a separate article. At the same time, the history article is reasonably short so that made me wonder why it was moved into a separate article. My gut feeling was to merge this back into the main article to make that one more balanced and well-rounded. As you split the articles at the time, I was wondering what your thoughts are? Regards, _pseudonym Jake Brockman ^talk 11:24, 17 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Jake Brockman: I agree the "History" section in the main Rouen article should have a few paragraphs summarizing the city's history. The separate History of Rouen was created because the city is quite old, and has had an eventful history; the article could be expanded and improved, especially in terms of its sources. Also, the French language version has 36,744 bytes, while the English language one contains only 13,639 bytes at present. -- M2545 (talk) 11:51, 17 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

To be honest, compared to Paris or Stuttgart (two cities I picked randomly), the history article about Rouen already seems like a summary. I don't think it makes sense to summarise this even further without making the history part look like a stub in comparison to other well rounded sections. My instinct would be to merge the history article back into the main article (with redirect - as it was before) until such a point where someone with French skills can take the native article and build on that. _pseudonym Jake Brockman ^talk 13:57, 17 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Jake Brockman: It would make sense to copy and paste this discussion to the Talk page of the Rouen article. Do you agree? -- M2545 (talk) 11:17, 18 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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I added a composer and musicologist who has become known today and who was born in Rouen. Natanael cairo (talk) 06:44, 12 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Under "Notable people" there are six photos.

• Every single one* of those six photos concerns the same man. M. Pinchon is not *that* notable that there should be six photos of him and his work on the Rouen page. TooManyFingers (talk) 23:15, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Good point. I nixed four of the pics. Eric ^talk 02:41, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]