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Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Visiting Rouen (France) with Savvy Mom Ruth Paget

Visiting Rouen (France) with Savvy Mom Ruth Paget


On one of many weekends to come, Laurent took me out to Rouen, which is located on the Seine River.  He went to business school there and received an MBA in Finance and Accounting.

The Impressionist painter Monet made Rouen famous with his multiple views of it in fog, rain, sleet, snow, and nice weather.  You pass Giverny on the way to Rouen, so he made money close to home in his retirement years.

Rouen has a population of 400,000 people, who live in this “city-museum.”  Every building we walked by was from the 15th century it seemed.

He showed me several key spots on campus like the offices of his chess club, the Junior Achievement Business club, and the dorm where he studied.

Rouen owes its 18th century success to the sale of indigo-colored cotton.  Now it has a port, railroad, and other infrastructure to make it an industrial center that serves as a main entryway into Paris for commercial shipping traffic.

We visited the Cathedral, which is huge.  A wedding was going on, so we left.

We ate pizza in a 15th century building and went to the movies.  We did not care about the weather, because we were seeing films.   This became a weekend outing for us when we did not want to spend too much money.


By Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France

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