• Mont Saint Michel and Chartres is a book written by the American historian and scholar Henry Adams (1838–1918). Adams wrote it well after his historical...
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    Mont-Saint-Michel (French pronunciation: [lə mɔ̃ sɛ̃ miʃɛl]; Norman: Mont Saint Miché; English: Saint Michael's Mount) is a tidal island and mainland commune...
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    of knights to one hundred Icoregister Adams, Henry (2010). Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres. [S.l.]: Read a Classic. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-61104-147-7. Duchhard...
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    Henry Adams (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
    man and a fine character and acted conscientiously. It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world." In Mont Saint-Michel and Chartres, Adams...
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    found in Goethe's Faust, Part 2, Act 5, lines 11,918–25. In Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, Henry Adams' chapter on the "Mystics" discusses Francis extensively...
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    Henry Adams's Mont Saint Michel and Chartres ends with a culminating chapter on Thomas, in which Adams calls Thomas an "artist" and constructs an extensive...
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    Chartres and the birth of the cathedral. Bloomington: World Wisdom Books, 1996. ISBN 978-0-941532-21-1 Adams, Henry. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres....
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    the famous and unique blue, bleu de Chartres, of the glass was created, and it has been impossible to replicate it. The French author Michel Pastoureau...
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    ISBN 0-940450-12-7. Also includes Adams's Democracy, Esther, and Mont Saint Michel and Chartres. 1995. Penguin Classics. ISBN 0-14-044557-9 1999. Oxford University...
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    glass windows French Gothic stained glass windows Henry Adams, Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, Paul Hamlyn, ISBN 0600341828 Sarah Brown, Stained Glass- an...
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  • characterized Adam of Saint Victor as "the foremost among the sacred Latin poets of the Middle Ages". In Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, Henry Adams wrote...
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  • 1905 work Mont Saint-Michel and Chartres, wherein he discusses the building of Chartres Cathedral, and the tidal-islet of Mont Saint-Michel, on the Normandy...
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  • Great Books series. For instance, a selection from Henry Adams' Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres critiqued the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas. Indeed, many...
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    chapter to Abelard's life in Mont Saint Michel and Chartres James Carroll's 2017 novel The Cloister retells the story of Abelard and Héloïse, interweaving it...
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    Operating Group; access date October 1, 2021 Adams, Henry, Mont Saint-Michel and Chartres. New York: Penguin, 1986. Fernie, E. C. The Architecture of...
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    and Héloïse are referenced throughout Robertson Davies's novel The Rebel Angels. Henry Adams devotes a chapter to Abelard's life in Mont Saint Michel...
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  • the West by Wu Cheng’en Mont Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams A Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham...
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  • ancestry. About 1015, he witnessed a grant of Gunnor to the abbey of Mont Saint-Michel. It has been suggested that he is identical to the Arfast who in December...
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    UNESCO. "Juridiction de Saint-Émilion". UNESCO. "Le Havre, la ville reconstruite par Auguste Perret". UNESCO. "Mont-Saint-Michel et sa baie". UNESCO. "Palais...
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    (Alpes-Maritimes): St. Michel Church Meymac, (Corrèze): Meymac Abbey Molompize: Notre-Dame de Vauclair Mont-Saint-Michel: Notre-Dame du Mont-Tombe Myans, (Savoie):...
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    Retrieved 18 October 2017 – via Google Books. Adams, Henry. Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, Penguin Classics, 1986, p. 19 Neill, p. 76 Neill, p. 79 Neill...
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  • Mont-Saint-Michel), monks, Diocese of Avranches (Mont-Saint-Michel, Manche) Mont-Saint-Quentin Abbey (Abbaye du Mont-Saint-Quentin), monks, Diocese of Noyon (Péronne...
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    in Paris, both built in the 1370s; and the Choir of Mont Saint Michel Abbey (about 1448). Angevin Gothic vaults and columns in the Hopital-St-Jean in Angers...
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  • the original on May 13, 2008. Barrett, p. 25 Adams, Henry. Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, Penguin Classics, 1986, p. 19 Neill, p. 76 Neill, p. 79 Neill...
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    victory over the English at Mont Saint-Michel, Darnley was made Count of Évreux to compensate him for his expenses, and Darnley promised to relinquish...
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  • List of schools in France (category Lists of buildings and structures in France)
    Notre-Dame, Chartres Lycée Privé Notre-Dame du Marais, Fougères Lycée Privé Polyvalent Saint-Paul, Lens Lycée Privé Saint Joseph, Le Havre Lycée Privé Saint-André...
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    communes du Pays de Dol et de la Baie du Mont Saint-Michel CC Roche aux Fées Communauté Communauté de communes de Saint-Méen Montauban Communauté de communes...
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    seen from below Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey was rebuilt from Romanesque to Gothic in the 12th century. The Gothic cloister of Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey (12th century)...
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    Mont-de-Marsan (French pronunciation: [mɔ̃ də maʁsɑ̃]; Occitan: Lo Mont de Marçan) is a commune and capital of the Landes department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine...
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    Louis Philippe I (category Dukes of Chartres)
    sympathies when he helped break down the door of a prison cell in Mont Saint-Michel, during a visit there with the Countess of Genlis. From October 1788...
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