Although the concept of chronotope has mainly been used in the study of the novel, it is particularly well-suited to the treatment of the “road” in Péguy’s work. An eminently tangible place where time itself finds material expression, the road is at the heart of two major poetic works, Suite d’Ève and Présentation de la Beauce à Notre-Dame de Chartres, each of which sheds light on a different aspect of the theme. Taking the road is just walking and much more at the same time: it’s a physical experience of time, it’s joining a history that goes beyond us, and it’s working against all the forms of immobility that threaten us.