Dwight Peck's personal website. In mid-April , the snow's disappearing in the Jura. You may not find this terribly rewarding unless you're included here, so this is a good time for casual and random browsers to turn back before they get too caught up in the sweep and majesty of the proceedings and can't let go.
The vegetable market in the Place Billard, near the cathedral. Kristin loves nothing so much as bins full of garlic.
Except seals, and kitties. And marmots. A Swarm of Locavores. The money-changers used to be all round here in medieval times. The church of Saint-Aignan named after a 4th century Bishop of Chartres. The church dates from the early 16th century, but it was built on the site of a chapel that served the nearby castle of the Counts of Chartres, now gone, in the present vegetable market.
It's a miracle. A pleasant albeit bearded face left , but when you move an inch to the left, or to the right -- it's the Turin Shroud. Or some similar holy shroud. I used to have baseball cards that could do this trick. Old Testament Bible stories -- we always look for the funniest tales. The stained glass here is nicely done, but this is the work of the Maison Lorins in the s. The original mostly 13th century stained glass windows in the Chartres cathedral, on the other hand, are considered amongst the world's finest, thanks to the labors of the good people who protected them when the town fell to the English in , during the sieges by the French Protestants in and , and under the German occupation of the Franco-Prussian War of , and stored them all away in hiding during the First World War and again during the Second World War, when the Germans roamed through the streets and American bombers roamed overhead.
Another one! This is the formerly Benedictine abbey church of St-Pierre, first donated in the 7th century by St Bathilde, the wife of the Merovingian king Clovis II, then absorbed by the Benedictines in the 10th century and rebuilt in the 12th and 13th centuries. Many of the stained glass windows in this place are also late 13th century, but some of them are said to be from the 16th century and salvaged from a nearby church of St-Hilaires when the Freedom Fighters of the French Revolution knocked that one down.
