place
Chartres
French cathedral city; its Gothic cathedral carries the smiling angel-with-sundial of 'L'Ange du Méridien.'
Reading notes
- Duino Elegies §7 Chartres
The French Gothic cathedral, named as a height of human building that music alone surpassed.
- New Poems §19 CHARTRES
Chartres cathedral, on whose south transept stands the smiling 'Angel of the Sundial' (L'Ange du Méridien) holding its dial.