Saving the Light at Chartres

by Victor A. Pollak

  “Pretty taciturn”: E-mail from Kevin Coffey, December 14, 2014.

  “A . . . quiet and reserved man”: E-mail from Kevin Coffey, December 17, 2014.

  “Married four more times”: Her final marriage, to George Graham Hume, lasted until her death, as Alice Torrey Hume.

  “Retired Officers Association magazine”: Today the Military Officers Association of America, as it is now known, can be found online at http://www.moaa.org.

  “The American . . . killed liberating their town . . . had also been . . . credited with saving the cathedral”: In addition, perhaps certain Catholics may believe that because August 15 was the Solemnity of the Assumption, the most logical explanation for Griffith’s presence at the cathedral that day and the next may have been that the Virgin Mary, keeping watch over and safeguarding the cathedral, had directed him to go there.

  “One of Shakespeare’s unsung characters”: Stephen Greenblatt, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics (New York: W. W. Norton, 2018), 144–45.

  “He stands up for human decency . . . one of Shakespeare’s great heroes”: Greenblatt, Tyrant, 144–45.

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