Circuit Rouen-Les-Essarts opened in 1950 in the hills above Rouen and was immediately spoken of as one of Europe's finest road courses — a 5.543 km clockwise layout that swept down one side of a valley and climbed the other, with a deceptively fast straight and a cluster of bends tight enough to punish any late brake. Formula 1 arrived five times for the French Grand Prix between 1952 and 1968; Juan Manuel Fangio, Jim Clark, and Jacky Ickx all won here, yet the circuit's reputation was always geography first. Jo Schlesser's fatal 1968 crash in the new Honda helped end the Grand Prix era, though sportscar, F2, and motorcycle crowds kept returning until the original course closed in 1993. This poster treats that Normandy chapter like cartography worth framing — blue circuit linework over tan contour ghosts inside a rounded border, and a CORNER POETRY caption that admits what every Rouen historian already knows about elevation and risk.