Getting to Chartres from Paris couldn’t be easier – there are trains from Paris Montparnasse station every hour at :33 after the hour (and there are even more if you want to head out earlier than 9am). It costs €14.40 each way and takes about an hour. (Going back there are roughl...
Getting to Brittany (or Bretagne, in French), in northwestern France, is an easy train trip from Paris. Depending on where you go in the region—Rennes, Saint-Malo, or Brest—the scenic train routes from Paris Montparnasse...
The Arc de Triomphe is another recognizable symbol of Paris, and of France, that you don’t want to miss. You can climb to the top for another interesting view of the city from above. It also sits in the middle of an impressive roundabout at one of the biggest intersections in the wor...
he was chosen to lead a group of 40 monks to Christianize England, but he needed additional encouragement to do it in 596. Upon arrival in Southern England, Augustine was greeted with enthusiasm by King Aethelbert I, and he allowed them the opportunity to preach in Canterbury. In 598, he...
Chartres, C. and Varma, S.: Out of Water: From Abundance to Scarcity and How to Solve the World's Water Problems, FT Press, New Jersey, 2010.Chartres, C. J. i Varma, S. (2010). Out of water: from abundance to scarcity and how to solve the world's water problems. Upper Saddle...
On March 16, heritage fragrance brand Guerlain turned its production site in Chartres, France, into a hand-sanitizer factory. Along with its LVMH siblings Parfums Christian Dior and Givenchy, it is now sending free hand sanitizer to the French health authorities and the AP-HP, Paris’ p...
One such tale (LE 40) concerns a lustful cleric from the city of Chartres in France, who was widely known to be ensnared by carnal desire (a subject which is given its own decree at the Fourth Lateran Council—canon fourteen—on punishing clerical incontinence). Yet the cleric had a ...
This high-grade, patterned obi is from Tatsumura Art Textiles, founded in Osaka in 1894 by Heizo Tatsumura, renowned as a genius in restoring ancient textiles. Inspired by the stained glass of Chartres Cathedral in Paris, the vibrant blue interwoven in this piece aims to replicate the famed ...
Chartres, C. and Varma, S.: Out of Water: From Abundance to Scarcity and How to Solve the World's Water Problems, FT Press, New Jersey, 2010.Chartres, C., and S. Varma. 2010. Out of water: From abun- dance to scarcity and how to solve the world's water problems. Upper Saddle...