The complete online text of Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams.

The American historian and author Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) lived in an era of remarkable change and recorded the implications of the period with great perception. He is best known for "Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres" and "The Education of Henry Ada...

No American historian of the nineteenth century has so enchanted, irritated, and impressed his contemporaries and successors as Henry Brooks Adams. He was and is his country's greatest historian, and its most elusive. His achievement was various: he help...

Henry Adams owes his popular reputation to a single work, The Education of Henry Adams. That book, which was privately printed in 1907 but not commercially published until just after the author's death in 1918, quickly made Adams famous, as he was posthu...

While much of the world worries about how to stop sea levels from rising, engineers in this corner of France want to spend $260 million to do just the opposite: raise the tides back up to save a national treasure. With its Gothic...

Travel edited by Sally Shalam OVERNIGHT cross-Channel ferries attract an odd cross-section of customers in the winter, and the MV Bretagne (Portsmouth to St Malo) was no exception. The car deck was awash with toughlooking fortysomething males wearing chinos and designer shirts, who...