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Title: Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Adams, Henry, 1838-1918 American Institute of Architects Cram, Ralph Adams, 1863-1942
Subjects: Cathédrale de Chartres Middle Ages Le Mont-Saint-Michel (France)
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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hose shore, facing us, recalls the coast of New Eng-land. The relation between the granite of one coast and that of theother may be fanciful, but the relation between the people who live oneach is as hard and practical a fact as the granite itself. When oneenters the church, one notes first the four great triumphal piers orcolumns, at the intersection of the nave and transepts, and on lookinginto M. Corroyers architectural study which is the chief source of allones acquaintance with the Mount, one learns that these piers wereconstructed in 1058. Four out of five American tourists will instantlyrecall the only date of mediaeval history they ever knew, the date ofthe Norman Conquest. Eight years after these piers were built, in1066, Duke William of Normandy raised an army of forty thousandmen in these parts, and in northern France, whom he took to England,where they mostly stayed. For a hundred and fifty years, until 1204,Normandy and England v/ere united; the Norman peasant went freely
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53u I H <I HO P\3BUC UBRAM ASTOa. LENOX ANDTILHEN (.^O.NOATTONS SAINT MICHIEL DE LA MER DEL PERIL 3 to England with his lord, spiritual or temporal; the Norman woman,a very capable person, followed her husband or her parents; Normansheld nearly all the English fiefs; filled the English Church; crowded theEnglish Court; created the English law; and we know that French wasstill currently spoken in England as late as 1400, or thereabouts, Afterthe scole of Stratford atte bo we. The aristocratic Norman namesstill survive in part, and if we look up their origin here we shall gener-ally find them in villages so remote and insignificant that their placecan hardly be found on any ordinary map; but the common people hadno surnames, and cannot be traced, although for every noble whosename or blood survived in England or in Normandy, we must reckonhundreds of peasants. Since the generation which followed William toEngland in 1066, we can reckon twenty-eight or thirty from father toson, and, i

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