![]() ![]() “Notre Dame de Paris” was released in 1831. Having already spent a couple years writing it, and in a desperate race against time, he barricaded himself in his Paris apartment (which was less than half-a-mile from Notre Dame) for four months as he finished his novel. ![]() Victor Hugo, a rising literary presence, objected to the Parisian officials’ plans to tear down the structure and pleaded publicly - and eloquently - against the plan, which nevertheless proceeded apace despite his pleas.ĭetermined to save the noble structure, Hugo began writing what he called “Notre Dame de Paris” - and what most people now know as “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” - in earnest. The majesty of this structure would be a thing of the past, celebrated, if at all, as a marvel of its age, but gone like the Colossus of Rhodes and other ancient Wonders of the World that survive only as memories.īut, a young writer (29 years old by the time his book was published), listening to public officials discussing what to do with the 226-foot-high double hulks of stones desecrating Ile de la Cité - the very place where the city of Paris was born – after having been ransacked during the French revolution of 1789 and left in tatters for the decades following, decided that just wouldn’t do. ![]() Notre Dame’s elegant façade, its finely crafted doors, the famous bell, the arches, the stained-glass windows, all would disappear. ![]()
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