Henry Adams' Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres

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from Texas

to France

from Mt. St. Michel

to Notre Dame de Chartres

• location

• view1

• view2

• view3

• view4

• St. Michael: view1

• St. Michael: view2

• triumphal pier, Adams, p. 2

• plan of the church

 St. Michael vs. Satan at Place St. Michel, Paris  St. Michael near U. T.

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  Chartres

 best overall site
 good for spires and identification of stained glass
 good for sculpture, Adams, pp. 72-73
only site to include "bestiaries," Adams, p. 101
 good on architecture, esp. the "thrust of the vaults", Adams, p. 106, as well as the sacred space and Peguy's poem
good for buttresses, Adams, p. 109, spires, and ornamental stone work
good for windows, sculpture, architecture, and history
good on some sculptural details
good on ornamental stone work
devoted solely to the labrynth
Chartres as a sacred place
Gothic art in general
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