Her son was killed leaving Chartres, I suppose in a car crash ... One of his favorite demonstrations illustrates the principle of the flying buttress, the medieval structural innovation that ...

“If you go into Chartres, it drops you to your knees.” The cathedral is remarkable for its siting—rising like a mirage above the flat agricultural plains surrounding the town not far from Paris—and ...

wheel-like flying buttresses. It was Friday, a special day in Chartres, we learned. The cathedral hummed, a hive of hushed activity. While moving from window to storied window - Noah's Ark riding ...

The Gothic cathedral—from St.-Denis and Notre-Dame of Paris to Chartres, Reims, and Amiens—stands out for a reason. Their flying buttresses, lofty towers, and subaqueous stained-glass windows ...

In December, restorers began work on one of the famed flying buttresses that support the ... money for conservation work on the Chartres Cathedral since 2006. (A recent cleaning of the dark ...