The CCFS is located in central Montparnasse, a stone’s throw from the famous Latin Quarter and Luxembourg Gardens. The education centre at 214 Boulevard Raspail has particularly good public transport links (metro line 4, stop Vavin, line 6, stop Raspail, bus routes 58, 82 and 91).

Gothic architecture: how France invented it
The cathedral builders: how France invented gothic architecture Stand inside the nave of Chartres Cathedral on a summer afternoon. Watch as the light pours through the great rose window, flooding the stone floor with pools of sapphire, ruby, and emerald. Look up impossibly far up to the vaulted ceiling that seems to dissolve into the heavens. In that moment, you

