Chartres

She isn't an exotic Andalusian princess.

She is from Chartres, a sleepy provincial town.

She isn't a tragic heroine holding court in a salon.

She is a stressed middle-class wife, constantly anxious about her husband's mounting business debts.

I think that we ought to look at mosaic pavements in much the same way one would look at stained glass windows in churches.

When you go to Chartres and look at the glorious stained glass windows in a Gothic church, each image up there says something.

We have to see this as being a literate society, a learned society, elite members of society with quite a lot of time on their hands, who were interested in reading the classics and literature, and they are trying to make sense of the world they live in.

At Lullingston Roman Villa, the discovery of a converted chapel was evidence that Christianity had been practised here.

In the 885 to 886 Siege of Paris, it was said that Rollo took part in leading the Viking raiders before they were pushed back by Count Odo of Paris.

Then, in 911, a group of Vikings led by Rollo besieged Paris again and also the city of Chartres, southwest of Paris.

A resounding victory at Chartres on the 26th of August forced King Charles the Simple of France to negotiate with Rollo.

After consulting with his trusted advisors, Charles acknowledged that the only way to stop the Viking raids, other than the age-old tactic of paying them, known as the Danegeld, was to turn Rollo from enemy into ally.

Charles sent the Archbishop of Reims to Rollo to present him with an offer of land in return for his sworn loyalty to Charles.

If not approaching the western coast from New York to Brest, or Southampton to St. Malo.

The route from Paris takes one through Chartres and Le Mans, where the cathedral of each, being very fine, it is well worth stopping over a train to see them.

For the first, besides its grand proportions, and the added interest of Henri IV having been crowned there, possesses perhaps the finest stained glass in all France, and three rose windows among its 130, which mostly date from the 13th century, are very beautiful.

The Cathedral at Le Mans, dedicated to St. Julian, deserves great attention.

parts of it being of the 8th and 9th century, and the choir is of 1220, that period when pointed Gothic architecture was in its perfection.

The colored glass, too, is almost as lovely as that at Chartres, and in the town some specimens of medieval work still remain, the house of Queen Berengaria being pointed out as one of these.

The traveler will hardly stop at Rennes, unless for changing trains to Saint-Malo in the north, which is an old picturesque place, and from which one takes the boat, going up the pretty river Rennes, passing under the magnificent viaduct to reach Dinan.

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Highest in rank among these high-born warriors was a lad of sixteen, Philip, Duke of Chartres, son of the Duke of Orléans, and nephew of the King of France.

It was with difficulty and by importunate solicitation that the gallant boy had extorted Luxembourg's permission to be where the fire was hottest.

Two other youths of royal blood, Louis, Duke of Bourbon, and Armand, Prince of Conti, showed a spirit worthy of their descent with them was a descendant of one of the bastards of henry the fourth louis duke of vendome a man sunk in indolence and in the foulest vice yet capable of exhibiting on a great occasion the qualities of a great soldier Berwick, who was beginning to earn for himself an honorable name in arms, was there, and at his side rode Sartsfield, whose courage and ability earned on that day the esteem of the whole French army.

the allied army returned to lambec unpursued and in unbroken order the french owned that they had about seven thousand men killed and wounded the loss of the allies had been little if at all greater the relative strength of the armies was what it had been on the preceding day and they continued to occupy their old positions but the moral effect of the battle was great the splendor of william's fame grew pale even his admirers were forced to own that in the field he was not a match for luxemburg In France the news was received with transports of joy and pride.

The court, the capital, even the peasantry of the remotest provinces, gloried in the impetuous valour which had been displayed by so many youths, the heirs of illustrious names.

It was exultingly and fondly repeated all over the kingdom that the young Duke of Chartres could not by any remonstrances be kept out of danger, that a ball had passed through his coat, that he had been wounded in the shoulder.

The people lined the roads to see the princes and nobles who returned from Steinkirch.

What separated two men more than abyss was to say the regicides, or to say the voters, to say the enemies, or to say the allies, to say Napoleon, or to say Bonaparte.

All sensible people were agreed that the era of revolution had been closed forever by King Louis XVIII, surnamed the immortal Arthur of the Chartres.

On the platform of the Pont Neuf, the word Redeviviu was carved on the pedestal that awaited the statue of Henry IV.

M. Payet, in the Rue de Teresa, No. 4, was making the rough draft of his privy assembly to consolidate the monarchy.