ILLUSTRATIONS
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The Cathedral from the Rue du Bourg (photogravure) Frontispiece
The House of the Salmon (vignette)1
Tetre de S. Nicholas9
S. Modesta, South Porch (from a photograph by C. Blin, Chartres)18
Gargoyle on South Porch32
Cathedral: South Transept55
Fulbert and His Church67
L’Étape-au-Vin81
Street Entrance to Old Hôtel de Ville104
The Spires of Chartres111
L’Âne qui vielle125
The Angel Dial126
Tympanum of the Royal Porch (from a photograph by C. Blin, Chartres)133
Pilaster of the Royal Porch136
Pilaster of the Royal Porch138
Washing-place on the River Eurefacing 168
Flying Buttresses of the Nave (from a photograph by C. Blin, Chartres)189
Ambulatory, Chartres Cathedralfacing 203
Interior North Porchfacing 221
S. George from the South Porch (from a photograph by C. Blin, Chartres)226
Thirteenth Century Gable of Old Hôtel de Ville232
Courtyard in the Old Hôtel de Ville239
Porte Guillaume245
Chartres in 1500 (from an old engraving)259
Arms of the Town262
Queen Bertha’s Tower266
Old Dormer Window from Maison du Saumon268
Chartres Besieged by M. le Prince de Condé, March 1568275
Tower of S. André283
Courtyard, Maison du Médecin287
Renaissance Oriel, Rue de la Corroierie297
Place de l’Hôtel de Ville319
Rue des Béguines331
Old Houses in the Rue S. Même347
Plan of Chartresfacing 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.
