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Architecture lovers and Francophiles, rejoice. French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans' novel set at the famed cathedral at Chartres contains such detailed descriptions of the site's layout and construction that early tourists sometimes used it as a guidebook. The book is the third in a series of works that follow the religious conversion and spiritual life of Durtal, the protagonist that Huysmans modeled on himself..
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Le livre de poche (1165-1166)
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- Canonical title
- The Cathedral
- Original title
- La cathédrale
- Original publication date
- 1898
- Important places
- Chartres Cathedral, Chartres, Centre-Val de Loire, France
- First words
- Chartres, au sortir de cette petite place que balaye, par tous les temps, le vent hargneux des plaines, une bouffée de cave très douce, alanguie par une douceur molle et presque étouffée d'huile, vous souffle au visage lo... (show all)rsqu'on pénètre dans les solennelles ténèbres de la forêt tiède.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Cela dépend de Vous, assistez-le dans sa pénurie, pensez qu'il ne peur rien sans vôtre aide, bonne Tentatrice,Notre-Dame du Pilier. Vierge de sous terre.
- Original language
- Français
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- 214
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- Languages
- 5 — English, Finnish, French, German, Portuguese
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 34
- ASINs
- 19
