Word: rouen
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Avenel stated that the expenditures of agricultural and commercial workmen did not increase in proportion to their salaries, but that they were governed by independent laws. In the fifteenth century, transport from Rouen to Amiens (80 miles) cost as much as the transport today from the west of the United States to Havre would cost; but the wages of labor in the sixteenth century represented 10 hectolitres of wheat, while nowadays they represent 37 1-2 hectolitres...
Johnston Forbes-Robertson was born in London in 1853, the eldest son of John Forbes-Robertson, the art historian and critic. He was educated as a painter, and after receiving his elementary training at the Charterhouse School he studied at Rouen in France, and was admitted a student at the Royal Academy...