On my right I could see across the cornfields

On my right I could see across the cornfields the two chiselled rustic spires of Saint-André-des-Champs, themselves as tapering, scaly, chequered, honeycombed, yellowing and friable as two ears of wheat.

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Chartres façade || Source - Jeff Drouin, 6 July 2004