The gypsy Esmeralda (born as Agnes) captures the hearts of many men, including those of Captain Phoebus and Pierre Gringoire, but especially Quasimodo and his guardian Archdeacon Claude Frollo. The story is set in Paris in 1482 during the reign of Louis XI. Notre-Dame is a French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831. It is upon this word that this book is founded.This new edition is illustrated by Luc-Olivier Merson. 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. 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 priest whitewashes them, the archdeacon scrapes them down then the populace arrives and demolishes them. Mutilations come to them from every quarter, from within as well as from without.
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. 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.Īfterwards, the wall was whitewashed or scraped down, I know not which, and the inscription disappeared. 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.
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