==Notable people==Rouen was the birthplace of:* Edward IV (1442–1483), the King of England* Thomas Aubert (Born 1500s), navigator and one of the first French explorers of the New World* Guillaume Guéroult (1507–1569), editor, translator and poet* François de Civille (1537–1610), Calvinist chief under Gabriel, comte de Montgomery* Isaac Oliver (c. 1560 – 1617), French-born English portrait miniature painter* Guy de la Brosse (1586–1641), botanist and pharmacist* Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant (1594–1661), Protestant poet* Alphonse Maille (1813–1865, Paris) French botanist, founding member of the Société botanique de France* Samuel Bochart (1599–1667), Protestant theologian and Orientalist* Jean Dubuc (Born 1600s), Great Grandfather of Julien Dubuque (1762–1810, French-Canadian explorer) and founder of Dubuque, Iowa, US.
Trajektna pristanišča za prečkanje Kanala - Caenu, Le Havre, Dieppe (50 minut) in Calais, ter predor pod Rokavskim prelivom - so na dosegu prevožene razdalje (dve in pol ali manj).