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‘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
_Theobald-the-Trickster and Fulbert the Bishop_ 51
_The Birth of the Bourgeoisie and the English Occupation_ 231
_Mathurin Régnier and the Renaissance at Chartres_ 285
PAGE _The Cathedral from the Rue du Bourg (photogravure)_ _Frontispiece_
_S. Modesta, South Porch (from a photograph by C. Blin, Chartres)_ 18
_Street Entrance to Old Hôtel de Ville_ 104
_Tympanum of the Royal Porch (from a photograph by C. Blin, Chartres)_ 133
_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
_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
_Chartres in_ 1500 (_from an old engraving)_ 259
_Old Dormer Window from Maison du Saumon_ 268
_Chartres Besieged by M. le Prince de Condé, March 1568_ 275
_Renaissance Oriel, Rue de la Corroierie_ 297
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.