“For a first visit to Chartres, choose some pleasant morning when the lights are soft, for one wants to be welcome, and the Cathedral has moods, at times severe. At best, the Beauce is a country none too gay.”

— Henry Adams

Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904)

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