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 ...

[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 ...

Benoist de Sinety, former vicar general of Paris, was on his scooter that April ... rearview mirror billowing from under the eaves of Notre-Dame. He cursed, made a U-turn and sped toward the ...

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

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.

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 ...