Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) _The Story of Chartres_ _All rights reserved_ [Illustration: The Rue du Bourg] _The Story of_ CHARTRES _by Cecil Headlam_ _Illustrated by Herbert Railton_ [Illustration] _London: J. M. Dent & Co._ _Aldine House, 29 and 30 Bedford Street_ _Covent Garden, W.C._ 1902 ‘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 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 English Occupation_ 231 CHAPTER IX _The Siege and the Breach_, 1568 263 CHAPTER X _Mathurin Régnier and the Renaissance at Chartres_ 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