TO
MY FRIEND
GEORGE MONTAGU
IN MEMORY OF DAYS
IN THE
OLD WORLD AND THE NEW

CONTENTS

[CHAPTER I]
PAGE
Druids and Romans: The Crypt[1]
[CHAPTER II]
Saints and Barbarians[31]
[CHAPTER III]
Theobald-the-Trickster and Fulbert the Bishop[51]
[CHAPTER IV]
S. Ives and the Crusades[80]
[CHAPTER V]
The Cathedral and Its Builders[109]
[CHAPTER VI]
Mediæval Glass and Mediæval Guilds[150]
[CHAPTER VII]
The Cathedral[182]
[CHAPTER VIII]
The Birth of the Bourgeoisie and the EnglishOccupation [231]
[CHAPTER IX]
The Siege and the Breach, 1568[263]
[CHAPTER X]
Mathurin Régnier and the Renaissance atChartres[285]
[CHAPTER XI]
The Coronation of Henri Quatre[302]
[CHAPTER XII]
The Revolution—S. Père[322]
[CHAPTER XIII]
The Prussians at Chartres[345]
[CHAPTER XIV]
Itinerary and Expeditions[352]
[Index][355]

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE
The Cathedral from the Rue du Bourg (photogravure) [Frontispiece]
The House of the Salmon (vignette)[1]
Tetre de S. Nicholas[9]
S. Modesta, South Porch (from a photograph by C. Blin, Chartres)[18]
Gargoyle on South Porch[32]
Cathedral: South Transept[55]
Fulbert and His Church[67]
L’Étape-au-Vin[81]
Street Entrance to Old Hôtel de Ville[104]
The Spires of Chartres[111]
L’Âne qui vielle[125]
The Angel Dial[126]
Tympanum of the Royal Porch (from a photograph by C. Blin, Chartres)[133]
Pilaster of the Royal Porch[136]
Pilaster of the Royal Porch[138]
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]
Interior North Porch[facing 221]
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]
Porte Guillaume[245]
Chartres in 1500 (from an old engraving)[259]
Arms of the Town[262]
Queen Bertha’s Tower[266]
Old Dormer Window from Maison du Saumon[268]
Chartres Besieged by M. le Prince de Condé,March 1568[275]
Tower of S. André[283]
Courtyard, Maison du Médecin[287]
Renaissance Oriel, Rue de la Corroierie[297]
Place de l’Hôtel de Ville[319]
Rue des Béguines[331]
Old Houses in the Rue S. Même[347]
Plan of Chartres[facing 354]

Chartres is actually
86 kilometres from Paris.
71"from Orléans.
35"from Dreux.