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FLEA/STREET MARKETS: Place du vieux Marché, cheese ! FLEA/STREET MARKETS Review

In this booth, you will find all sorts of local cheese. Camembert, of course, invented by Marie Harel, but there several others that are awaiting for you though you do not know even their name. Rollot, Neufchâtel, Boursault, Brillat-Savarin, Pays d'Auge, Livarot, Vieux-Pané to name a few ! You should taste them !

Theme: Food and Drink

FLEA/STREET MARKETS: Place du vieux Marché, sea food FLEA/STREET MARKETS Review

In the covered market that has been built on the Place du Vieux Marché instead of the old open air market, you will find several booth selling various foods.
In this booth, you will find all sorts of fish, shrimps, mussels, oysters, etc....

Theme: Food and Drink

STORES/MALLS: Antiques STORES/MALLS Review

In Rouen, you will find plenty of Antiques. I don't know if this one is better than the others but I have spotted it as it was close to the Aître Saint Maclou, right by the side of the entrance.

Address: Rue Martainville

Theme: Antiques

STORES/MALLS: Sweets STORES/MALLS Review

Auzou is the best chocolate maker in Rouen. It is working since 1634 in this house.

What to buy: Larmes de Jeanne d'Arc (Tears of Joan of Arc) : almond lightly grilled, added with nougatine and coated whith chocolate.
Agneau Rouennais (Rouen's lamb), kind of Genoa bread.
Confit de pommes
Macarons de Grand'mère Auzou

Address: 163 rue du Gros Horloge

Theme: Food and Drink

FLEA/STREET MARKETS: Place du vieux Marché, the caterer FLEA/STREET MARKETS Review

The open air market that had taken place on the Place du Vieux Marché for several centuries has now been replaced by a covered market.
In this caterer's booth, you will find all sorts of local foods, cooked and ready to take.

Theme: Food and Drink