CHAPTER XIV

_Itinerary and Expeditions_ 352

_Index_ 355

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE _The Cathedral from the Rue du Bourg (photogravure)_ _Frontispiece_

_The House of the Salmon (vignette)_ 1

_Tetre de S. Nicholas_ 9

_S. Modesta, South Porch (from a photograph by C. Blin, Chartres)_ 18

_Gargoyle on South Porch_ 32

_Cathedral: South Transept_ 55

_Fulbert and His Church_ 67

_L’Étape-au-Vin_ 81

_Street Entrance to Old Hôtel de Ville_ 104

_The Spires of Chartres_ 111

_L’Âne qui vielle_ 125

_The Angel Dial_ 126

_Tympanum of the Royal Porch (from a photograph by C. Blin, Chartres)_ 133

_Pilaster of the Royal Porch_ 136

_Pilaster of the Royal Porch_ 138

_Washing-place on the River Eure_ _facing_ 168

_Flying Buttresses of the Nave (from a photograph by C. Blin, Chartres)_ 189

_Ambulatory, Chartres Cathedral_ _facing_ 203

_Interior North Porch_ _facing_ 221

_S. George from the South Porch (from a photograph by C. Blin, Chartres)_ 226

_Thirteenth Century Gable of Old Hôtel de Ville_ 232

_Courtyard in the Old Hôtel de Ville_ 239

_Porte Guillaume_ 245

_Chartres in_ 1500 (_from an old engraving)_ 259

_Arms of the Town_ 262

_Queen Bertha’s Tower_ 266

_Old Dormer Window from Maison du Saumon_ 268

_Chartres Besieged by M. le Prince de Condé, March 1568_ 275

_Tower of S. André_ 283

_Courtyard, Maison du Médecin_ 287

_Renaissance Oriel, Rue de la Corroierie_ 297

_Place de l’Hôtel de Ville_ 319

_Rue des Béguines_ 331

_Old Houses in the Rue S. Même_ 347

_Plan of Chartres_ _facing_ 354

CHARTRES is actually

86 kilometres from Paris. 71 “ from Orléans. 35 “ from Dreux.

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’ drive from the Place de l’Opéra.

The road is straight and level and a favourite one with automobilists. Chartres may also, of course, be approached from Normandy _viâ_ Rouen, Évreux, Dreux, and, if you include Amiens to the North-west, and Caen (whence you will visit Bayeux, Lisieux, and Falaise) to the North-east, Chartres will be found to provide the perfect finish to a delightful and instructive, and also economical, tour.

An itinerary for those who have but a short time to spare at Chartres is suggested on page 352.

Hotels--Grand Monarque (Automobile Club de France); Duc de Chartres; France.

The Story of CHARTRES