[28] _Cartulaire de S. Père._
[29] It was outside the walls of that day. The New Gate was that which
afterwards formed the gate of the cloister, opposite the Renaissance
clock tower, north-west of the Cathedral, destroyed at the end of the
eighteenth century. Two pillars of the gate then destroyed are still
visible.
[30] Le Pré des Reculés.
[31] To visit the treasure, apply to the chaplain who guards the
Chapel of Notre-Dame du Pilier. (Fee, half a franc.)
[32] _Cf._ the phrase in the Charter of King John (1356) ‘quam-quidem
ecclesiam ipsa virgo gloriosa elegit pro sua camera speciali.’
[33] _Cf._
‘Ne leissent en Chartrain et en Duneiz bordel,
Ne mezon en estant ki seit fors du chastel;
Ne leissent boef ne vaque, genice ni torel
Coc, capon, ne geline, ne viez chien ne chael.’
_Roman de Rou._
[34] Compare the castles and cathedrals of Durham and Lincoln.
[35] This monastery, south of the town, like that of S. Martin-au-Val,
formed part of the domain of the Counts.
[36] Fulbert’s name in Chartres has been given to a street which
runs parallel with the south-west corner of the Cathedral. A statue
of the bishop, holding in his hand a scroll on which is incorrectly
displayed a plan of the _present_ Cathedral, is to be seen on the
eastern extremity of the choir screen. A fresco portrait of him was
discovered some years ago in the Church S. Hilaire at Poitiers. The
curious portrait of him speaking to his people _within his Cathedral_,
which is here reproduced, was painted on vellum by André de Mici in
1028, the year of Fulbert’s death, and illustrates a _tombeau_, or
panegyric, composed in his honour by his pupil, the musician, Sigo.
[37] _Migne’s Patrology_, Vol. 141.
[38] _Cf._ York Minster.
[39] It was situated outside the walls, on the north side. Destroyed
by the Huguenots in 1568, the site is still marked by the name of the
Clos S. Jean, which is near the railway station, and upon which you
look from the Butte des Charbonniers.
[40] Monographie de la Cathédrale de Chartres par l’Abbé Bulteau, 2nd
edition, 1887-1891. Two vols.
[41] Henricus Rex hujus ecclesiæ lacunar construxit.
[42] Those who are curious on this subject will find some examples of
his plain-song in a volume edited by M. Merlet and M. L’Abbé Clerval,
and entitled _Un Manuscript Chartrain du XI^e. Siècle_.
[43] _Œuvres de Fulbert_, p. 177, 1608 edition.
[44] S. Eman of Cappadocia founded a small hermitage beneath the
shadow of Notre-Dame, and this hermitage was afterwards turned into a
chapel, fragments of the walls of which still remain (Rue S. Eman).
The apse was formerly supported by the old town wall of the ninth
century.
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