Christopher J. Thumé (center), performing as Clopin Trouillefou, alongside the cast of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." Photo by Steve Moyer. In 15th-century Paris, bell-ringer Quasimodo watches the ...

The church has been the stage for iconic moments in history, both real (Napoleon’s coronation) and fictional (Victor Hugo’s ‘The Hunchback of Notre-Dame’). Fire had long been a concern for ...

Much as been written and said about the grand reopening and restoration of France's Notre Dame, perhaps the world’s most famous cathedral, but for its famous gargoyles this is far from their ...

Firefighters saved the towers — famously featured in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” Some of the limestone gargoyles and grotesques were damaged by water pressure from the hoses and have been ...

Increasing international awareness of the historic building was its use as a setting for Victor Hugo's 1831 novel, "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame." ...

Viollet-le-Duc drew inspiration from Victor Hugo’s famous book ‘’The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' to create these demonic animal figures with personified expressions. How to tell them apart?

To a large extent, the Notre Dame, which will be reopened on Saturday after burning to the ground in 2019, is of Victor Hugo’s making. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, published in 1831, begins with the ...

Viollet-le-Duc drew inspiration from Victor Hugo’s famous book ‘’The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' to create these demonic animal figures with personified expressions. How to tell them apart?

Parisians watched in horror in 2019 as flames ravaged Notre Dame, a landmark famed as the setting for Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame and one of the world's most-visited monuments.