SAVING THE LIGHT AT CHARTRES

As war engulfed Europe in the fall of 1939, master glass artisans dismantled the hundreds of stained glass windows of the Chartres Cathedral, and soldiers, tradesmen, and laborers along with local volunteers crated thousands of glass panels and stowed them in the crypt--and just before the German invaders arrived, hauled them across the country to an underground quarry. Color photos.