Mediæval Town Series
An excellent train, leaving the Gare S. Lazare at mid-day, runs through from Paris in one hour and a half. A good _déjeuner_ is served in the train on starting. Returning from Chartres, most of the trains run into the Montparnasse Station, south of the river and twenty minutes...
The Cathedral of Chartres is gifted to a peculiar degree with the quality of impressiveness. This quality it owes to the living unity, the animated harmony of its members, and a...
7. CHAPTER V‘By suffrage universal it was built As practised then, for all the country came From far as Rouen, to give votes for God, Each vote a block of stone securely laid Obedient to th...
8. CHAPTER VI‘I gaze round on the windows, pride of France! Each the bright gift of some mechanic guild, Who loved their city and thought gold well spent To make her beautiful with piety.’ J...
2. CHAPTER IBuilt half on the slope and half on the strath in a depression of calcareous soil, Chartres lies along the banks of the gliding Eure, breaking the long levels of La Beauce.
4. CHAPTER III‘Thiebaut li quenz de Chartres fu fel é engignous Mult out chastels é viles, é mult fu averous; Chevalier fu mult prous é mult chevalerous Mez mult part fu cruel é mult envious....
10. CHAPTER VIIIWhilst the Cathedral was a-building, events had happened at Chartres which serve to indicate the importance of the position attained by the town in feudal France by virtue of th...
14. CHAPTER XIIThe events recorded in the last chapter, culminating in the coronation of Henri Quatre in the Cathedral of the town which, as the Huguenot King, he had besieged three years befo...
16. CHAPTER XIVThe following scheme may perhaps prove of use to those who have but a few hours to spend in Chartres and wish to find their way quickly about the picturesque but tortuous street...
11. CHAPTER IXPlague and famine weighed heavily upon Chartres throughout the sixteenth century; not less heavily the wars of François I. and of Henry IV., and the continual contributions in m...
3. CHAPTER IIThe early Christians of Chartres were scattered and their churches destroyed during the final persecution under Diocletian. When, therefore, the disciples of S. Denis, S. Chéron...
13. CHAPTER XIWhen Henri III. fell beneath the dagger of the assassin, Jacques Clément, the King of Navarre was hailed King of France at S. Cloud. But the fair realm which was one day to be his
6. Letter XIII.), whom he tried to trick into giving his assent. But S.Ives would be no party to such a business. Though he could not dissuade the King, he persisted in opposing and condemning his action. He warned his brother bishops not to be mut...
12. CHAPTER X‘J’ai vécu sans nul pensement Me laissant aller doucement A la bonne loi naturelle; Et si m’étonne fort pourquoi La Mort daigna penser à moi Qui ne pensai jamais à elle.’ _Epita...
5. CHAPTER IVThe town of Chartres is clearly divided into two sections--the upper (_quartier du luxe_), modern, unimpressive and inelegant, and the lower, picturesque, poor, mediæval. This l...
15. CHAPTER XIIIOn the 26th of October 1901 a monument, standing at the entrance of the Promenade des Charbonniers, near the Place du Châtelet, and dedicated to the memory of the children of Eu...
1. CHAPTER XIVAn excellent train, leaving the Gare S. Lazare at mid-day, runs through from Paris in one hour and a half. A good _déjeuner_ is served in the train on starting. Returning from C...