They talk about Chartres

They talk about Chartres…

Writers – essayists, novelists and poets: Chartres has attracted talent.
 

It is hard to imagine all those who have written about the cathedral and who have revealed its astonishing spiritual, human and artistic richness.

The poets, in the foreground of which the unforgettable Charles Péguy. The novelists, since the cathedral appears in the pages of Proust, Gide, Dos Passos…

And the writings of René Schwob, André Malraux.

Not to mention those who do not profess to write but who have found the right words: spirituals (including several popes), filmmakers (and a hallucinating tirade by Orson Wells!), architects (futuristic – but who recognize the role of Chartres…).

Words that touch just right…

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