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Rouen Cathedral

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Rouen Cathedral () is a Catholic church in Rouen, Normandy, France. It is the see of the Archbishop of Rouen, Primate of Normandy. It is famous for its three towers, each in a different style. The cathedral, built and rebuilt over a period of more than eight hundred years, has features from Early Gothic to late Flamboyant and Renaissance architecture.Encyclopædia Britannica on-line, "Rouen Cathedral" It also has a place in art history as the subject of a series of impressionist paintings by Claude Monet. Read more on Wikipedia

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