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 ...

Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel “Notre-Dame de Paris,” or “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame,” which not only immortalized the cathedral’s ...

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 ...

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

[Image: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY] Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel Notre-Dame de Paris mobilized public sentiment and helped to save the battered cathedral from destruction. The novel portrays Notre ...

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 ...