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Romance · 1831 · English

Notre-Dame de Paris

by Victor Hugo

About this book

Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo explores historical fiction, people with disabilities — fiction, france — history — louis xi, 1461-1483 — fiction.

From the opening pages: “Afterwards, the wall was whitewashed or scraped down, I know not which, and the inscription disappeared. For it is thus that people have been in the habit of proceeding with the marvellous churches of the Middle Ages for the last two hundred years. Mutilations come to them from every quarter, from within as well as from without. The priest whitewashes them, the archdeacon scrapes them down; then the populace arrives and demolishes…”

Author
Victor Hugo
First published
1831
Category
Romance
Language
English

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