Chartres, September 8, 1224, the festival of the Virgin's Birth. For more that a week, the country roads to this cathedral town were clogged with crowds of pilgrims. Some were pious peasants who wished to thank the Virgin for hearing their prayers. Others were worldly merchants who came to buy and sell at the great market-fair called the Septembresce.
-David Hackett Fischer, The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History
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