Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

Notre-Dame de ParisVictor Hugo · 1831The Hunchback of Notre-Dame: Quasimodo, Esmeralda and Frollo in medieval Paris (translated by Isabel F. Hapgood). Read Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo page…The sixth of January, 1482, is not, however, a day of which history has preserved the memory. There was nothing notable in the event which thus set the bells and the bourgeois of Paris in a ferment from early morning. It was neither an assault by the Picards nor the Burgundians, nor a hunt led along in procession, nor a revolt of scholars in the town of Laas, nor an entry of “our much dread lord, monsieur the king,” nor even a pretty hanging of male and female thieves by the courts of Paris. Neither was it the arrival, so frequent in the fifteenth century, of some plumed and bedizened…All books in the ECCE gallery