Chartres
School or library
commune in Eure-et-Loir, France
Location: 48.4467, 1.4883
What this place is
- School or library — Fulbert's cathedral school made Chartres a place men travelled to for logic and the quadrivium, and his pupils carried the method outward.
Who is recorded here
- Hugh of Blois death · AD 985
In art
- File:Chartres (Eure-et-Loir) - Musée des Beaux-Arts - "Les escaliers de Chartres" (Chaïm Soutine, 1893-1943) (48017559488).jpg — Chaïm Soutine (1933)
- File:1936 Vieux lavoirs sur l'Eure Henri Villain musée des beaux-arts Chartres Eure-et-Loir France.jpg — Henri Villain (1936)
- File:France Eure et Loir Chartres Cathedrale nuit 02.jpg — Calips
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About the place
Chartres is the prefecture of the Eure-et-Loir department in the Centre-Val de Loire region in France. It is located about 90 km (56 mi) southwest of Paris. As of 2023, there were 171,665 inhabitants in the metropolitan area of Chartres, 38,324 of whom lived in the city (commune) of Chartres proper.
From Wikipedia, retrieved 2026-08-14 · CC BY-SA 4.0