Have you ever been
To a city
Where it often rains
Famous for its Cathedral
And historical figures
Welcome to Rouen
Let's explore Rouen
Hello everybody it's time for a new series and this time we are in Normandy
we're going to do the seven days road trip and today we start the day in
You can see the cathedral behind me
We are in Rouen
Rouen is a city in the north of France. 3h30 from Belgium or 2h30 driving from Paris
It is the capital of the region Normandy and it was one of the largest cities of medieval Europe
When we arrived there we first check into our hotel
Which I will show you later. And then we started to explore the city. It was a really rainy rainy day
So we tried to find some activities that were inside
Our first stop was the museum about Joan of Arc. Joan of Arc was actually a simple peasant girl who changed Europe's history
She was born in
1412 in France in the middle of the Hundred Years War the series of wars between
England and France. At the age of 13 Joan started to have visions of st. Catherine st
Margaret and also Saint Michel. In the vision they asked her to become a warrior and to put Charles of Valois on the throne
the visions persisted until May
1428 when Joran was sixteen and the saints told her that she needed to go and see
Charles
She visited him in 1429 dressed like a man because it was like dangerous on the road. When she met him
She said that she was sent by God and that she needed to go to Orlean to liberate the city
In 1429
Joan arrived in Orlean and in May of the same year
The French had broken the siege and the English left . Her second task
Now was to get Charles to Reims which was deep into the English territory
She liberated towns along the Loire River to make a path for Charles towards Reims. In July of the same year
1429 they reached Reims and on the 17 July Charles of Valois was coronated Charles the seventh of France
Joans vision stopped, her mission was over ,but one year later. Joan was imprisoned on the battlefield and handed over to the English
They took her to Rouen and put her on trial
On May 13th 1431Joan was burned alive
Her trial was redone later, and she was
Innocent. She became a martyr in 1920. She was also made a saint
After the visit to this museum we continued walking in the city and we discovered lots of beautiful small alleyways
We saw the Cathedral, the grosse horloge and we also visited the church that was built for
Joan of Arc
This is
our room
nice nice nice big bed
And
Television ,we have a desk and some pictures of
Rouen
Which you will maybe see further in the video and this is the view we have
On a park and this is the bathroom
Really nice whoo, nice shower a rain shower
Looks all really really clean
and we have also some
products from
Mercure. this was it for this video. I hope you liked it and I see you in the next video. Bye