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Industrial port (cotton textiles,
electronics, distilling, oil refining) on the
river Seine, capital of Haute-Normandie, NW
France; population (1982) 380,000.
history Rouen was capital of Normandy from
912. Lost by King John 1204, it returned
briefly to English possession 1419-49; Joan
of Arc was burned in the square 1431. The
novelist Flaubert was born here, and the
hospital where his father was chief surgeon
is now a Flaubert museum.