Notre-Dame de Paris

Victor Hugo’s famous historical novel “Notre-Dame de Paris” is largely responsible for allowing us to admire one of the world’s most beautiful Gothic cathedrals in the heart of Paris. Hugo deliberately drew attention to the cathedral with his novel because Notre-Dame was slated for demolition. The author made no secret of the fact that the protagonist of his novel was the cathedral itself. Beneath its Gothic vaults, a dramatic love story unfolds—one of the most famous and tragic in literary history. Intrigue and unexpected twists, love and jealousy, revenge and betrayal, death on the scaffold, and the loss of a beloved so profound that it proves fatal—all set against the splendor and horrors of medieval France.