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Notre-Dame De Paris

by Victor Hugo

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  1. 01 - Preface and Book 1: I - The Grand Hall

    39:34

  2. 02 - Book 1: II - Pierre Gringoire

    23:38

  3. 03 - Book 1: III - Monsieur the Cardinal

    17:47

  4. 04 - Book 1: IV - Master Jacques Coppenole

    23:03

  5. 05 - Book 1: V - Quasimodo

    17:35

  6. 06 - Book 1: VI - Esmeralda

    5:35

  7. 07 - Book 2: I - From Charybdis to Scylla

    7:00

  8. 08 - Book 2: II - The Place de Grave

    6:18

  9. 09 - Book 2: III - Kisses for Blows

    26:12

  10. 10 - Book 2: IV - The Inconvenience of Following a Pretty Woman through the Streets in the Evening

    11:17

  11. 11 - Book 2: V - Result of the Dangers

    5:39

  12. 12 - Book 2: VI - The Broken Jug

    48:11

  13. 13 - Book 2: VII - A Bridal Night

    23:45

  14. 14 - Book 3: I - Notre-Dame

    22:51

  15. 15 - Book 3: II - A Bird's-eye View of Paris

    66:34

  16. 16 - Book 4: I - Good Souls

    9:12

  17. 17 - Book 4: II - Claude Frollo

    13:27

  18. 18 - Book 4: III - Immanis Pecoris Custos, Immanior Ipse

    20:40

  19. 19 - Book 4: IV - The Dog and his Master

    3:25

  20. 20 - Book 4: V - More about Claude Frollo

    17:55

  21. 21 - Book 4: VI - Unpopularity

    2:26

  22. 22 - Book 5: I - Abbas Beati Martini

    27:19

  23. 23 - Book 5: II - This will Kill That

    41:41

  24. 24 - Book 6: I - An Impartial Glance at the Ancient Magistracy

    29:02

  25. 25 - Book 6: II - The Rat-Hole

    10:58

  26. 26 - Book 6: III - History of a Leavened Cake of Maize

    54:18

  27. 27 - Book 6: IV - A Tear for a Drop of Water

    24:29

  28. 28 - Book 6: V - End of the Story of the Cake

    2:01

  29. 29 - Book 7: I - The Danger of Confiding One's Secret to a Goat

    37:07

  30. 30 - Book 7: II - A Priest and a Philosopher are two Different Things

    23:01

  31. 31 - Book 7: III - The Bells

    6:18

  32. 32 - Book 7: IV - ~ANArKH~

    36:16

  33. 33 - Book 7: V - The Two Men Clothed in Black

    15:19

  34. 34 - Book 7: VI - The Effect which Seven Oaths in the Open Air can Produce

    10:51

  35. 35 - Book 7: VII - The Mysterious Monk

    20:39

  36. 36 - Book 7: VIII - The Utility of Windows which Open on the River

    21:27

  37. 37 - Book 8: I - The Crown Changed into a Dry Leaf

    24:27

  38. 38 - Book 8: II - Continuation of the Crown which was Changed into a DryLeaf

    13:03

  39. 39 - Book 8: III - End of the Crown which was Changed into a Dry Leaf

    8:43

  40. 40 - Book 8: IV - ~Lasciate Ogni Speranza~—Leave all hope behind, ye who Enter here

    39:21

  41. 41 - Book 8: V - The Mother

    13:29

  42. 42 - Book 8: VI - Three Human Hearts differently Constructed

    43:58

  43. 43 - Book 9: I - Delirium

    29:16

  44. 44 - Book 9: II - Hunchbacked, One Eyed, Lame

    10:11

  45. 45 - Book 9: III - Deaf

    7:43

  46. 46 - Book 9: IV - Earthenware and Crystal

    28:29

  47. 47 - Book 9: V - The Key to the Red Door

    5:28

  48. 48 - Book 9: VI - Continuation of the Key to the Red Door

    7:48

  49. 49 - Book 10: I - Gringoire has Many Good Ideas in Succession.—Rue des Bernardins

    25:43

  50. 50 - Book 10: II - Turn Vagabond

    5:27

  51. 51 - Book 10: III - Long Live Mirth

    20:16

  52. 52 - Book 10: IV - An Awkward Friend

    48:55

  53. 53 - Book 10: V-1- The Retreat in which Monsieur Louis of France says his Prayers

    52:42

  54. 54 - Book 10: V-2 - The Retreat in which Monsieur Louis of France says his Prayers

    25:49

  55. 55 - Book 10: VI - Little Sword in Pocket

    2:24

  56. 56 - Book 10: VII - Chateaupers to the Rescue

    5:11

  57. 57 - Book 11: I-1 - The Little Shoe

    35:53

  58. 58 - Book 11: I-2 - The Little Shoe

    51:56

  59. 59 - Book 11: II - The Beautiful Creature Clad in White

    23:31

  60. 60 - Book 11: III - The Marriage of Phoebus

    2:22

  61. 61 - Book 11: IV - The Marriage of Quasimodo

    5:38

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In medieval Paris, the deformed bell-ringer Quasimodo, the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmeralda, and the tormented archdeacon Frollo are bound together in a tragedy of love, obsession, and cruelty that plays out in the shadow of the great cathedral of Notre-Dame. Hugo makes the cathedral itself a character, mourning its neglect and celebrating the Gothic grandeur of old Paris. Sweeping, passionate, and darkly romantic, the novel is a masterpiece of French literature that helped save Notre-Dame from demolition and gave the world one of its most enduring stories of beauty and the beast. Rich in spectacle and heartbreak, it remains unforgettable.

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A few years ago, while visiting or, rather, rummaging about Notre-Dame, the author of this book found, in an obscure nook of one of the towers, the following word, engraved by hand upon the wall:—

These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic caligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply.

He questioned himself; he sought to divine who could have been that soul in torment which had not been willing to quit this world without leaving this stigma of crime or unhappiness upon the brow of the ancient church.

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 them.

Thus, with the exception of the fragile memory which the author of this book here consecrates to it, there remains to-day nothing whatever of the mysterious word engraved within the gloomy tower of Notre-Dame,—nothing of the destiny which it so sadly summed up. The man who wrote that word upon the wall disappeared from the midst of the generations of man many centuries ago; the word, in its turn, has been effaced from the wall of the church; the church will, perhaps, itself soon disappear from the face of the earth.

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Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist, the towering figure of French Romanticism. His novels Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame are cornerstones of world literature.

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First published
1831
Reading time
About 13 hours
Pages
533
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Mark Nelson