France
Chartres, capital of Frances Department of Eure-et-Loir, stands on the Eure River, about 60 miles 100 kilometers southwest of Paris. An important center in pre-Roman Gaul, it was one of the sacred places of the Druids. Overrun by the Normans, the region later settled down, and late in the thirteenth century it became the appanage of Charles de Valois, who was briefly 1284 1290 king of Aragon and Sicily. Fran