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Stories Set in Rouen
Half-timbered lanes and a clock for every century: Rouen is where Joan of Arc was burned in 1431, and the city never quite got over it. Trial after trial, on screen and off, replays the verdict. The Passion of Joan of Arc is the definitive one. Open Rouen on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Browse 4 books and 3 movies set in Rouen.
The Passion of Joan of Arc
A classic of the silent age this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and…
The Trial of Joan of Arc
Rouen Normandy 1431 during the Hundred Years' War. After being captured by French soldiers from an opposing faction Joan of Arc the Maid of Orléans is unjustly tried by an ecclesiastical court overseen by her English…
Madame Bovary
'Oh, why, dear God, did I marry him?'Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she longs…
Mon héroïne
A young girl from Rouen dreams about directing movies with Julia Roberts. Overprotected by her mother she hopes to join a prestigeous cinema school in New York City but nothing happens as expected and her dreams are…
The Death of Joan of Arc
Michael Scott’s first-ever exclusive ebook short story delves into the world of the bestselling series The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel and offers readers a never-before-seen lost story—the story of two…
Boule de Suif (21 contes)
Pendant l'hiver, 1870-71, durant la guerre franco-prussienne, la ville de Rouen (Normandie) est envahie par les Prussiens. Pour fuir l'occupation, dix personnes prennent la diligence de Dieppe : un couple de…
El acontecimiento
En octubre de 1963, cuando Annie Ernaux se halla en Ruán estudiando filología, descubre que está embarazada. Desde el primer momento no le cabe la menor duda de que no quiere tener esa criatura no deseada. En una…
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