Many critics have argued that the cathedral is, in fact, the novel's central character. Hugo set his high-blown romantic story in 1482 during the reign of Louis XI, but much of The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a rumination on the architecture of the building itself. Sales of the American writer Ernest Hemingway's ode to Paris in the 1920s, A Moveable Feast, soared after the November 2015 Paris attacks. "Below this flame, below the dark balustrade with its glowing trefoils, two spouts, terminating in gargoyles, vomited sheets of fiery rain, whose silvery streams shone out distinctly against the gloom of the lowers part of the cathedral front."įrench people have a tendency to turn to literature at times of national crisis. "A vast flame, fierce and strong, fragments of which were ever and anon borne away by the wind with the smoke. Upon the top of the topmost gallery, higher than the central rose-window, a vast flame ascended between the two belfries with whirlings sparks. He wrote: "What they saw was most strange.
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