Editing Chartres (section)

==Diocese==
{{Main|Diocese of Chartres}}

The town is the seat of a [[diocese]] (bishopric), a prefecture, and a ''[[cour d'assises]]''. It has a ''Tribunal de grande instance'', a ''Tribunal d'instance'', a [[Chamber of commerce]] and a branch of the ''[[Banque de France]]''.

Public and religious schooling from kindergarten through high school and vocational schools is given in mixed (boys and girls) establishments. The two main high schools are the ''Lycée Jehan de Beauce'' and the ''Lycée Marceau'', named after two important personages of the history of Chartres: [[Jehan de Beauce]] was a 16th-century architect who rebuilt the northern steeple of the cathedral after it had been destroyed by lightning in July 1506, and [[François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers|Marceau]], a native of city, who was a general during the French Revolution of 1789.

===Pilgrimages===
Chartres has been a site of Catholic pilgrimages since the Middle Ages. The poet [[Charles Péguy]] (1873–1914) revived the pilgrimage route between Paris and Chartres before [[World War I]]. After the war, some students carried on the pilgrimage in his memory. Since 1982, the association ''[[Notre-Dame de Chrétienté]]'',<ref>[http://www.nd-chretiente.com Association Notre-Dame de Chrétienté]</ref> with offices in [[Versailles, Yvelines|Versailles]], organizes the annual {{convert|100|km|mi|abbr=on}} pilgrimage on foot from ''[[Notre-Dame de Paris]]'' to ''Notre-Dame de Chartres''. About 15,000 pilgrims, from France and countries outside France, participate every year.

===Bishops===
Notable bishops of [[Bishopric of Chartres|Chartres]]:
* [[Fulbert of Chartres]] (1007–1029)
* [[Ivo of Chartres|St. Ivo of Chartres]] (1090–1115)
* [[John of Salisbury]] (1176–1180)
* [[Érard de La Marck]] (1472–1538)