The Story of Chartres

The Story of Chartres

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CHAPTER I Druids and Romans: The Crypt

CHAPTER II Saints and Barbarians

CHAPTER III Theobald-the-Trickster and Fulbert the Bishop

CHAPTER IV S. Ives and the Crusades

CHAPTER V The Cathedral and Its Builders

CHAPTER VI MediAEval Glass and MediAEval Guilds

CHAPTER VII The Cathedral

CHAPTER VIII The Birth of the Bourgeoisie and the English Occupation

CHAPTER IX The Siege and the Breach , 1568

CHAPTER X Mathurin Regnier and the Renaissance at Chartres

CHAPTER XI The Coronation of Henri Quatre

CHAPTER XII The Revolution S. PEre

CHAPTER XIII The Prussians at Chartres

CHAPTER XIV Itinerary and Expeditions

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Contents
Illustrations
Index: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, V, W, Z.
Footnotes

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The Rue du Bourg
The Rue du Bourg

The Story of CHARTRES
by C e c i l H e a d l a m
Illustrated by H. Railton etc.

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London: J. M. Dent & Co.
Aldine House, 29 and 30 Bedford Street
Covent Garden W.C. decorative image decorative image 1902

‘Quae qui non vidit jam similia
non videbit, non solum ibi, sed in
totÁ Francia.’

‘La vile esteit mult bone, de grande antiquitÉ,
Iglise i aveit bele, de grant anctoritÉ;
De la sainte Virge Marie mÈre de DÉ
I esteit la kemise tenue en grant chiertÉ.’
Robert Wace (Roman du Rou).

‘The most wonderful thing in France.’
James Russell Lowell.

‘Notre-dame de Chartres! A world to explore, as
if one explored the entire Middle Ages.’
Walter Pater.

TO

MY FRIEND

GEORGE MONTAGU

IN MEMORY OF DAYS

IN THE

OLD WORLD AND THE NEW

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