Example sentences for: chartres

How can you use “chartres” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In 1788 a Spanish official, lighting a devotional candle in the private chapel in his home on Chartres Street, started a fire which spread, fanned by the wind, to devour nearly half the town.

  • Henry Adams posited an antithesis between the Dynamo and the Virgin--the mysterious electrical generators he saw at the Great Exhibition of 1900 and the religious devotion that built Chartres Cathedral.

  • After the more sober spirituality of the Romanesque churches, the soaring Gothic cathedrals of Chartres, Paris (Notre-Dame), Bourges, and Amiens were at once monuments to the glory of God and testimony to the sheer power, spiritual and temporal, of the Roman Catholic Church.

  • August: Annecy, fireworks by the lake; Chartres, organ recitals in cathedral, Assumption Day procession and Mass; Aix-en-Provence, jazz; Colmar, wine fair; Le Touquet, chamber music

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