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Eouen. Very important educational, scientific and 

 industrial establishments centre here. Chairs of theology ; 

 medical and pharmaceutical schools ; the Lycde Cor- 

 neille : branches in fact of the AcadSmie Universitaire 

 of Caen, together with Government or departmental 

 courses of agriculture and rural economy ; municipal 

 schools of painting, guilds of trades and commerce ; a 

 national academy of sciences, belles lettres and arts ; a 

 free school for commerce and trades ; agricultural and 

 horticultural associations ; societies of natural sciences, 

 medicine and bibliophilists ; famous cattle fairs ; a 

 society for Normandy anuals ; a chamber of agriculture ; 

 even to a commission of antiquaries uamed by the state. 

 This, it must be confessed, is a tolerably large outfit for a 

 town of merely 102,470 souls. It will not have escaped 

 your attention that the Manchester of France, as the 

 Eouennais proudly style their beloved city, rejoices in 

 a society for the promotion of the study of Norman 

 antiquities and Norman history, a proof, if any were 

 needed, that in Eouen, culture and commerce are not 

 deemed foes. Eouen from the latin Rothomagus 

 (Palace of Eoth or Venus) dates very far back. The 

 time was when Eouen sentinels mounted guard in its 

 streets. In the fifth century, it was overrun by the 

 Barbarians, who dislodged the Eoman legions. In 844, 

 we read of the Northern Vikings, or Normans ascend- 

 ing the Seine in their galleys and pillaging the city. 

 Later on, it became the French capital of the English 

 Sovereigns until English power received a check, in 

 1430, through the instrumentality of the heroic Maid of 

 Orleans. Joan of Arc, to whom a fountain and statue 

 were erected in 1755 on one of the squares of Eouen, 

 now known as La Place de la Pucelle, & site adjoining 

 to the spot on which she was burnt in 1431. English 

 sway disappeared from French soil merely in 1450, 

 when was fought the battle of Formigny. However, 

 renowned as a manufacturing town, Eouen never forgot 

 what cities as well as men owe to themselves : reverence 



