PARIS — The word "Merci" was projected onto the front of Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral as it reopened on Saturday, in thanks ...

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 ...

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?

religious and even ethnic nation they seek to protect from globalization and multiculturalism,” writes French medievalist Florian Mazel in his recent book Nouvelle histoire du Moyen Age (New History ...

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 ...

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simpler way of marking the occasion is to revisit a book closely tied up with the cathedral’s history: Victor Hugo’s tragic novel Notre-Dame de Paris (1831), known in English as The Hunchback ...

Victor Hugo helped make the cathedral a symbol of Paris and France when he used it as a setting for his 1831 novel "The Hunchback ... from Notre-Dame. Would-be visitors can now book a free ticket ...

On Saturday night, with a ritual knocking, the Archbishop of Paris marked the reopening of Notre Dame just five years after the fire, unveiling a restoration perhaps as extraordinary as was the ...

French President Emmanuel Macron provided a glimpse Friday of Paris' rescued and refurbished gothic masterpiece cathedral Notre-Dame, five years after it nearly succumbed to a massive fire.