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

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 ...

but admission is technically free. Arguably, it a historic work of art that brought Notre Dame into global popular culture and increased interest in its preservation: namely, Victor Hugo's 1831 novel ...

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 ...

Gargoyles made their way into popular culture with Hugo’s "The Hunchback ... Dame’s renovations, including a team of sculptors working on the gargoyles and chimaeras. Outside Notre-Dame, the ...

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 ...

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 ...