Chartres is a city of France, préfecture (capital) of the Eure-et-Loir département.
Its cathedral has been inscribed by the UNESCO on the list of World Heritage Sites in 1979.
Chartres was the birthplace of:
- Jerôme Pétion de Villeneuve
- François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers
- Pierre Nicole
- Jacques Pierre Brissot
- Fulbert of Chartres, 1007-1029
- St. Ivo of Chartres, 1090-1115
- John of Salisbury, 1176-1180