Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres is best considered a companion to the author’s autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams (1918). It is subtitled A Study of Thirteenth-Century Unity.

Premium acid-neutral archival paper that will not yellowĮxtended essay by Henry Adams, printed privately in 1904 and commercially in 1913.Genuine 22k gold gilt to all edges, front design, spine, and back.A magnificent book – looks even better in real life than in photos. A limited edition collection published under the auspices of The American Revolution Bicentennial Administration.Ĭondition: Hardcover, full-leather. See OUR TRAVELOGUE for more details.Author: Henry Adams, Gonzalo Fonseca (illus) I think it is actually my favorite on the trip. The 2 main towers are different, the architecture changes from 1 spot to another but it is a lovely cathedral for religious history buffs or if traveling from Loire to Paris. Built in the late 1100s, the current cathedral has had multiple remodels and additions over the centuries. The 1 st much smaller Chartres Cathedral on this site was from the 4 th Century, and after many iterations, burned down. Our last visit in France was Chartres Cathedral. The views are as impressive as the buildings, looking over the mud-flats to the tourist village and through the thick fog, the Normandy Coast. Fortified since ancient times, it has been a monastery since the feudal 8 th century A.D. The next day we walked back up to the Abbaye entrance for the 1 st tour. After dinner Rick and I walked/panted up the hill to see close-up the Abbaye glowing at night from its many lights and surrounded by the dark ocean. Outside of famed rosette window above entry, Chartres Cathedralĥ0-foot difference between lowest and highest tide. Meditation labyrinth outside Chartres Cathedral Rosette & other windows of Chartres CathedralĪmazing stonework inside Chartres Cathedral Narrow, 4-storey spiral stairs of our hotel, Le Croix BlancheĬlose to mud flats below causeway to Mont. Rick dragging bags down narrow, spiral stairs from hotel's 4th floor Models of how Abbaye Mont St.-Michel evolvedĬloisters for monks to pray, meditate, move about the Abbaye

The Abbaye & fortifications of Mont Saint-Michel Michel appears to Aubert, Bishop of Avranches to inspire founding of a church on this island Michel atop spire of Abbaye Mont St.-MichelĬorridors around Abbaye's courtyard for monks to meditate Mud flats & causeway from the Abbaye to mainland Normandy Coast Walking up to Abbaye Mont Saint-Michel, started in 966 AD Mud flats below the Abbaye du Mont St.-Michel

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