Cover of Notre-Dame de Paris

Notre-Dame de Paris

Victor Hugo

Notre-Dame de Paris, Victor Hugo's 1831 novel of Paris in 1482, opens on the Feast of Fools, when a jeering crowd crowns the deaf bell-ringer Quasimodo Pope of Fools. Claude Frollo, the archdeacon who raised him, grows obsessed with Esmeralda, a street dancer with a performing goat, and lets her take the blame for his own crime. Its view of Roma and of disability belongs to its day and stays on the page. It has endured as the novel that helped save a cathedral: its fame fed the campaign to restore the building.

Chapters average about 4,800 syllables, but End of the Story of the Cake runs 335 and The Little Shoe, near the close, 19,583. Xưng hô tracks power and desire. Quasimodo is con to Frollo's cha, and Louis XI's ta and khanh draw hạ thần and bệ hạ from Olivier le Daim. Esmeralda is a shy em who calls Phoebus chàng and gives Frollo a furious ngươi, while to him she is nàng.

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Chapters

  1. 1 CHAPTER I. THE GRAND HALL
  2. 2 CHAPTER II. PIERRE GRINGOIRE
  3. 3 CHAPTER III. MONSIEUR THE CARDINAL
  4. 4 CHAPTER IV. MASTER JACQUES COPPENOLE
  5. 5 CHAPTER V. QUASIMODO
  6. 6 CHAPTER VI. ESMERALDA
  7. 7 CHAPTER I. FROM CHARYBDIS TO SCYLLA
  8. 8 CHAPTER II. THE PLACE DE GRÈVE
  9. 9 CHAPTER III. KISSES FOR BLOWS
  10. 10 CHAPTER IV. THE INCONVENIENCES OF FOLLOWING A PRETTY WOMAN THROUGH THE STREETS IN THE EVENING
  11. 11 CHAPTER V. RESULT OF THE DANGERS
  12. 12 CHAPTER VI. THE BROKEN JUG
  13. 13 CHAPTER VII. A BRIDAL NIGHT
  14. 14 CHAPTER I. NOTRE-DAME
  15. 15 CHAPTER II. A BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF PARIS
  16. 16 CHAPTER I. GOOD SOULS
  17. 17 CHAPTER II. CLAUDE FROLLO
  18. 18 CHAPTER III. *IMMANIS PECORIS CUSTOS, IMMANIOR IPSE*
  19. 19 CHAPTER IV. THE DOG AND HIS MASTER
  20. 20 CHAPTER V. MORE ABOUT CLAUDE FROLLO
  21. 21 CHAPTER VI. UNPOPULARITY
  22. 22 CHAPTER I. *ABBAS BEATI MARTINI*
  23. 23 CHAPTER II. THIS WILL KILL THAT
  24. 24 CHAPTER I. AN IMPARTIAL GLANCE AT THE ANCIENT MAGISTRACY
  25. 25 CHAPTER II. THE RAT-HOLE
  26. 26 CHAPTER III. HISTORY OF A LEAVENED CAKE OF MAIZE
  27. 27 CHAPTER IV. A TEAR FOR A DROP OF WATER
  28. 28 CHAPTER V. END OF THE STORY OF THE CAKE
  29. 29 CHAPTER I. THE DANGER OF CONFIDING ONE’S SECRET TO A GOAT
  30. 30 CHAPTER II. A PRIEST AND A PHILOSOPHER ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS
  31. 31 CHAPTER III. THE BELLS
  32. 32 CHAPTER IV. ἈΝÁΓΚΗ
  33. 33 CHAPTER V. THE TWO MEN CLOTHED IN BLACK
  34. 34 CHAPTER VI. THE EFFECT WHICH SEVEN OATHS IN THE OPEN AIR CAN PRODUCE
  35. 35 CHAPTER VII. THE MYSTERIOUS MONK
  36. 36 CHAPTER VIII. THE UTILITY OF WINDOWS WHICH OPEN ON THE RIVER
  37. 37 CHAPTER I. THE CROWN CHANGED INTO A DRY LEAF
  38. 38 CHAPTER II. CONTINUATION OF THE CROWN WHICH WAS CHANGED INTO A DRY LEAF
  39. 39 CHAPTER III. END OF THE CROWN WHICH WAS TURNED INTO A DRY LEAF
  40. 40 CHAPTER IV. *LASCIATE OGNI SPERANZA*—LEAVE ALL HOPE BEHIND, YE WHO ENTER HERE
  41. 41 CHAPTER V. THE MOTHER
  42. 42 CHAPTER VI. THREE HUMAN HEARTS DIFFERENTLY CONSTRUCTED
  43. 43 CHAPTER I. DELIRIUM
  44. 44 CHAPTER II. HUNCHBACKED, ONE EYED, LAME
  45. 45 CHAPTER III. DEAF
  46. 46 CHAPTER IV. EARTHENWARE AND CRYSTAL
  47. 47 CHAPTER V. THE KEY TO THE RED DOOR
  48. 48 CHAPTER VI. CONTINUATION OF THE KEY TO THE RED DOOR
  49. 49 CHAPTER I. GRINGOIRE HAS MANY GOOD IDEAS IN SUCCESSION.—RUE DES BERNARDINS
  50. 50 CHAPTER II. TURN VAGABOND
  51. 51 CHAPTER III. LONG LIVE MIRTH
  52. 52 CHAPTER IV. AN AWKWARD FRIEND