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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
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.
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.
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The sublime silhouette of Chartres Cathedral, inaugurated around 1200, is visible from far away, towering above the old town and the surrounding plain.
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