Mardi - un voyage a Rouen

We had a lovely, but rather chilly day, touring Rouen today. We took a guided tour of the city and learned all about its history. We saw many medieval wooden houses made of oak, which we learned when properly cured will never rot. We also saw the Notre Dame cathedral, an example of gothic architecture and which has the tallest spire in all of France. We walked through the Aitre Sainte-Maclou, a plague cemetery which dates back to the Great Plague of 1348. We saw the site where Joan of Arc was tried, and later where she was martyred. Finally we toured the house where the author Gustave Flaubert was born, which in addition to housing some historical information on the author, also contains a museum of 18th and19th century surgical and pharmaceutical instruments.