PLACE NOTRE-DAME.

Before 1429, this place served as a poultry and grass market. In 1537,
it was paved and enclosed with a low wall. In 1641, two stone Crosses,
still visible in some ancient engravings, were placed at the two
corners. In the time of _Pommeraye_, the _parvis_ Notre-Dame, was the
place on which bonfires were lighted. At present it is the flower and
seed market, regularly held on the sundays and fridays.


PLACE DE LA CALENDE.

It was formerly called _Port-Morant_, _port des navires_, or _port de
Notre-Dame_, because, before the first dukes enclosed the Seine within
certain limits, the vessels discharged their cargoes at this place. The
house which is exactly opposite the porch of the church and on which we
distinguish a dial, is the remains of the old _Hôtel-Dieu_.


THE ROUGEMARE.

In the year 949, Otho, emperor of Germany, Louis IVth, king of France,
and Arnold, count of Flanders, laid siege to the town of Rouen. The duke
Richard Ist, surnamed _Sans-Peur_, made a _sortie_ by the _porte
Beauvoisine_, and fell on the enemies of which he made a great
slaughter. This action took place partly on the site of the present
_Rouge-Mare_ (red-pool), from the blood with which it was covered.

In 1450, the _Rouge-Mare_ became the horse market, which has, since the
end of the last century, been transferred to the _Boulingrin_. The