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The "Gros-Horloge" under which the tumbrils had passed; the "Vieux-Marché," where so many heads had fallen which the executioner owed to him; le Faubourg Bouvreuil, where the graves of his victims grew green; Bicêtre, the old conciergerie, the palace itself, which he could see from his windows, all these objects must have called up to his mind painful recollections.

Rouen was then enlarged by the greater portion of the ground which forms the parishes of Saint-Patrice, Saint-Nicaise, Saint-Vivien, and Saint-Maclou. The gates of Martainville, Saint-Hilaire and Bouvreuil were then built. A sixth enlargement took place about the middle of the XIVth century.

It went up the Boulevard Bouvreuil, along the Boulevard Cauchoise, then the whole of Mont-Riboudet to the Deville hills. It came back; and then, without any fixed plan or direction, wandered about at hazard.

Besides her patrimonial house in the Rue Saint-Amand, she had retained the quiet house in the Faubourg Bouvreuil which still served as a refuge for the exiles sought by the police of the Directory, and as a depôt for the refractories who were sure of finding supplies there and means of rejoining the royalist army.

House, rue Percière, no 11. House, rue Bouvreuil, no 4. House, rue Etoupée, no 4. Houses, rue des Carmes, no 69 to 77. House, rue Caquerel, no 13. House, rue Damiette, no 29. Houses, rue Eau-de-Robec, no 186, 221, 223. Houses, rue Malpalu, no 90 and 92. Houses, rue du Change, no 2 to 8. Houses, rue du Bac, no 28 and 30. House, rue des Cordeliers, no 45.

Mme. de Combray, left alone with her two daughters the husband of the elder had also emigrated, left Tournebut in 1793, and settled in Rouen, where, although she owned much real estate in the town, she rented in the Rue de Valasse, Faubourg Bouvreuil, "an isolated, unnumbered house, with an entrance towards the country."

Those fathers obtained letters patent on the 27th july 1624. They purchased a house at the entrance of the suburb Bouvreuil; which was then in the parish of Saint-Godard, and laid the foundations of their monastery.

It went up the Boulevard Bouvreuil, along the Boulevard Cauchoise, then the whole of Mont-Riboudet to the Deville hills. "It came back; and then, without any fixed plan or direction, wandered about at hazard.