It has taken hundreds of compagnons, France's artists and craftspeople, to pull off a restoration so fast, so meticulous, and ...

Victor Hugo’s tragic novel Notre-Dame de Paris (1831), known in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. Hugo wrote the novel in part to raise public interest in the cathedral and encourage the ...

That book centers on Quasimodo ... According to Rebuilding Notre-Dame de Paris, an estimated 2,000 stonemasons, carpenters, sculptors, gilders roofers, foundry-workers, art experts and various ...

Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel “Notre-Dame de Paris,” or “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame,” which not only immortalized the cathedral’s story, but spared it from destruction by inspiring a major ...

Five years after it was nearly destroyed in a devastating fire, Notre Dame de Paris formally reopened on ... bell ringer ...

PARIS (AP) — Notre Dame Cathedral ... Viollet-le-Duc drew inspiration from Victor Hugo’s famous book ‘’The Hunchback of Notre ...

an illuminated prayer book commissioned by the treasurer to King Charles VII, Fouquet depicts Medieval Paris a few centuries after Notre-Dame’s initial completion. In a scene marked by ...

Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel “Notre-Dame de Paris,” known to many as “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame,” not only immortalized the cathedral’s story, but inspired a major restoration of the site.