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Pretty little town with half-timbered houses.

The church was built on the place where Joan of Arc was executed. This national heroine is commemorated every year on the second Sunday in May. The roofs of the church and the small halls are deliberately based on the flames of the pyre on which Joan of Arc was burned.

Looks like a mixture of Le Corbusier and Gothic. Unfortunately I missed it when I visited. Must come back!

This clock has the oldest movement of any clock in France.

The Church of Saint Jeanne d'Arc is a Catholic church in the city centre of Rouen, northern France

JEANNE d'ARC, known in German-speaking countries as "JOHANNA von ORLEANS", (1412? to 1431) was an important person in the history of France at the time of the so-called 100 Years' War between the kingdoms of England and France. After her capture, she was condemned as a heretic (at the instigation of the English) and burned, but two and a half decades later (at the instigation of the French) this sentence was overturned. She is the patron saint of France. The music group OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark) dedicated a song to her in the early 1980s: "Maid of Orleans". Can be found on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmwMhjbThKg

The big clock is one of the main monuments of Rouen that you can contemplate for hours because it is so beautiful. It is a belfry on which a clock was mounted in the 14th century. The dial is 2.5 m in diameter with a single large hand whose point is a sheep. We also see the phases of the moon and a weekly calendar. Importantly, in Rouen, they say LE Gros Horloge. Why, no one knows... Beneath this clock, a magnificently sculpted renaissance arch overlooks the street. Angels are sculpted along this arch, one of which has his head upside down, a symbol of the dissatisfaction of the sculptor not being paid enough for his taste (The French have not changed in 600 years)

Fantastic clock to admire from both sides. It displays the hours, moon phase and day.