Matching our postcard of Rouen cathedral we were overwhelmed by the choice of stories to tell. We will post about Rouen favourites the fearsome Vikings, and clever Flaubert one day. But today a lesser known son of Rouen, an artist, has grabbed our attention and spattered it with a rainbow of
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A mother’s love, faith and Joan d’Arc, in Rouen
Or, 'Isabelle, who made the Maid of Orléans'. To any other mother in the village of Domrémy, Joan would have been considered a difficult child. Even before the visions started she argued her views loudly and displayed a stubbornness bordering on the unfeminine. But Joan’s mother was Isabelle Romée, wife of farmer