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Mon 29-Oct-56: Roamed around, quick look at Louvre & saw Picasso film again – dinner alone at St Germain.<\/i><\/h6>\n
Tue 30-Oct-56:\u00a0\u00a0 Rose 5am & got 6:30 train to Chartres, cold but enjoyable. Dinner with Bob Close & others.<\/i><\/h6>\n
Wed 31-Oct-56: Went to Louvre. Quiet day.<\/i><\/h6>\n
Thu 1-Nov-56:\u00a0\u00a0 All Souls Day here. Everything shut, did nothing much, went to Place de Vosges.<\/i><\/h6>\n

\"1956<\/p>\n

Paris<\/h6>\n
Mon 29 \u201856<\/h6>\n

Dearest girl,<\/p>\n

Another very grey day, with the significant difference that it looks grey to me, too. I\u2019ve just come back from a scouting trip to the Louvre. And these great galleries can depress one very easily. One is forced to contemplate one\u2019s own inadequacies & other\u2019s noble communications with succeeding generations. It was very dark in the gallery but I managed to locate some beautiful things. Leonardo\u2019s \u201cVirgin with Jesus & St Anne<\/a>\u201d, so much better than the \u201cMona Lisa<\/a>\u201d. Giorgione\u2019s \u201cLe Concert Champetre<\/a>\u201d Titian \u201cVirgin au Lapin<\/a>\u201d del Sarto \u201cLa Charit\u00e9<\/a>\u201d & a superb portrait by Raphael of \u201cJeanne D\u2019Aragon<\/a>\u201d. Very beautiful. All this beauty of city & past efforts are saddening. Perhaps I\u2019m tired \u2013 and reaction has set in after yesterday\u2019s strong impact. I felt like giving it away, but the more one sees of this fabulous city, the more one realises how little one can accomplish in the time allowed. God, how I\u2019d like a month here with you. We could give back to each other the needed help. I hope you understood why I had to become so direct at the end of my last letter. It was very necessary to combat the upward surge. I know, anyway, that you would have been all you could to me. I think I\u2019ll go out and find myself something to eat. I\u2019ve been roaming around a fair bit & am getting rather hungry. Strange as it may seem I wish I could hear you chatter madly, and not too pontifically about all the things we could have seen together. I\u2019d like to buy you some wine, & to get you slightly high, and be (that is me) all sort of mildly amused & knowledgably superior. Miss you darling. Au revoir.<\/p>\n

Have just come in \u2013 it\u2019s about 11pm. Went & saw the Picasso picture<\/a> again but couldn\u2019t manage to keep awake. Went and had a feed alone. Cost about \u00a31 for a very indifferent meal.<\/p>\n

Very cold out \u2013 and the streets are wet & full of reflections from the lights of the city. The Seine doesn\u2019t look too inviting in this sort of weather. Roley must have been in & out again. No sign of him at the moment. Don\u2019t know whether to go to Chartres on the 6.20am train tomorrow \u2013 or not. Just can\u2019t make up my mind at the moment. Don\u2019t fancy it in the rain. Perhaps it would be better for me to see some galleries although the bigger ones are closed on Tuesdays. Good night sweetheart.<\/p>\n

Good Heaven! It\u2019s Thursday morning already! [31 Oct 1956]. On Tuesday morning I got up at 5am. Cold & very dark. Took myself off on a train at 6.30am to revisit Chartres Cathedral \u2013 arrived Chartres about 8am, not long after daylight. It was bitterly cold & a perhaps a perfect day to get the full impression of the cathedral. Austere & keen. I had slightly expected a letdown in emotional feeling on a second view \u2013 but all my first raptures were held. It is the most moving building I have seen. A wonderful work of the human spirit. Seems to completely embody the medieval gothic soul.<\/p>\n

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Chartres Cathedral; 30 Oct 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The great and simple southern spire \u2013 soaring without any commonplace cake like decorations into the cold grey sky \u2013 Everything very silent, save for the squawk of the black birds flying in & around the open chambers the high peaked top.<\/p>\n

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Chartres Cathedral; 30 Oct 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Around the main entrance \u2013 the typical Gothic carvings \u2013 but these so much better than most. Pure Gothic \u2013 as moving as can be \u2013 quite up to the Indian gift for sculptured embroidery conceived as a grand and united whole. A beautiful church. Went over to the Louvre but find the pictures hard to see \u2013 Paris is very dull & grey \u2013 cold too now. So dark, little light comes into the gallery. Most disappointing as there were many fine pictures to be seen. I getting too tired to really take them in. It\u2019s a big gallery with plenty of walking to be done, and my legs have just about had it. Am looking forward to getting home for a rest for a few days.<\/p>\n

All the world tension & disaster doesn\u2019t add to the gaiety over here. I hope to God I can get home on time. What with the way things are shaping up it\u2019s becoming a bit disturbing \u2013 Not knowing just how big the Anglo French war with Egypt<\/a> will get. I guess you are getting worried about it. However, I think I will get through all right. I\u2019m going to London tomorrow or the day after & will find out better how the flights home are standing. Shouldn\u2019t be any trouble, as apparently plenty of French athletes are getting ready to take off for the Melbourne Olympics.<\/p>\n

Here it is Thursday & midday already. Days are getting short here \u2013 I was up at 8am & big[?] a fair bit of washing. Managed to boil my handkerchiefs for the first time. Roley\u2019s got a fire going & the flat is all tightly closed up \u2013 makes me sleepy \u2013 so I suppose I\u2019d better go out & liven up in the grey chill. Very hazy & all \u2013 the buildings appearing like photographs with their almost complete lack of colour. Very paintable though.<\/p>\n

I must get this letter off \u2013 perhaps my last from here. Longing to see you and Graham again. Nothing like having your own family around even if I never realise it when I have got it! Sorry that this is not a more enthusiastic letter, darling. When I am all keyed up to get the details good & hot \u2013 some interference takes place \u2013 much as you have complained about at home. Give my regards to the Dolemans<\/a> \u2013 Watsons<\/a> & Price Jones. I send you very loving thoughts \u2013 your Bill. XXX<\/p>\n

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Taken from Rue de la Grenouill\u00e8re, Chartres; 30 Oct 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The same view, 19 Dec 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Taken near 1 – 3 Rue du Frou looking towards Chartres Cathedral, Chartres; 30 Oct 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The same view, 19 Dec 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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2-10 Rue de la Planche aux Carpes, photographed from Rue du Ch\u00eane Dor\u00e9, Chartres; 30 Oct 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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[Bridge walk, Chartres, France, 1956]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The same view, 19 Dec 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Wep’s son Peter and family outside the house at 2-10 Rue de la Planche aux Carpes, Chartres; 19 Dec 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Wep’s son, Peter Pidgeon and home owner Jean outside 2-10 Rue de la Planche aux Carpes, Chartres; 19 Dec 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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1 Rue de Bethl\u00e9em, Chartres; 30 Oct 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Chartres Cathedral; 30 Oct 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Chartres Cathedral; 30 Oct 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Chartres Cathedral; 30 Oct 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Chartres Cathedral; 30 Oct 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Chartres Cathedral; 30 Oct 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Chartres Cathedral; 30 Oct 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Chartres Cathedral; 30 Oct 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Chartres Cathedral; 30 Oct 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Chartres Cathedral; 30 Oct 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Institut de France, Le Parlement des Savants photographed from the right bank looking across the Seine; 31 October 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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[Institut de France, Le Parlement des Savants, Paris 1956]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pont Neuf, Paris; 31 October 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Louvre museum in the distance from the Tuileries Garden, Place de la Concorde, adjacent to the Rue de Rivoli, Paris; 31 October 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Place de la Concorde, Paris; 31 October 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bassin Octagonal, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris; 31 October 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Margaret Murray standing in front of the Bassin Octagonal (camera looking north) in the Jardin des Tuileries, Paris; 31 October 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Jardin des Tuileries, Paris; 31 October 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Place de Vosges; 1 November 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Arrived Chartres about 8am, not long after daylight. It was bitterly cold & a perhaps a perfect day to get the full impression of the cathedral. Austere & keen. I had slightly expected a letdown in emotional feeling on a second view \u2013 but all my first raptures were held. It is the most moving building I have seen. A wonderful work of the human spirit. 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