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Notre-Dame de Paris

By Victor Hugo (translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood)

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Cover: Rue Neuve Notre-Dame in Paris (1826), oil on canvas by Eduard Gaertner (1801-1877) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1877)

In fifteenth-century Paris, a gypsy dancer, a priest, a captain and the bell-ringer Quasimodo are bound together beneath the cathedral. Victor Hugo's 1831 novel, in Isabel Hapgood's translation.

Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.

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Table of contents

  1. 1: The Grand Hall
  2. 2: Pierre Gringoire
  3. 3: Monsieur the Cardinal
  4. 4: Master Jacques Coppenole
  5. 5: Quasimodo
  6. 6: Esmeralda
  7. 7: From Charybdis to Scylla
  8. 8: The Place De Grève
  9. 9: Kisses for Blows
  10. 10: The Inconveniences of Following a Pretty Woman
  11. 11: Result of the Dangers
  12. 12: The Broken Jug
  13. 13: A Bridal Night
  14. 14: Notre-Dame
  15. 15: A Bird’s-Eye View of Paris
  16. 16: Good Souls
  17. 17: Claude Frollo
  18. 18: Immanis Pecoris Custos, Immanior Ipse
  19. 19: The Dog and His Master
  20. 20: More About Claude Frollo
  21. 21: Unpopularity
  22. 22: Abbas Beati Martini
  23. 23: This Will Kill That
  24. 24: An Impartial Glance at the Ancient Magistracy
  25. 25: The Rat-Hole
  26. 26: History of a Leavened Cake of Maize
  27. 27: A Tear for a Drop of Water
  28. 28: End of the Story of the Cake
  29. 29: The Danger of Confiding One’s Secret to a Goat
  30. 30: A Priest and a Philosopher Are Two Different Things
  31. 31: The Bells
  32. 32: ἀνáγκη
  33. 33: The Two Men Clothed in Black
  34. 34: The Effect Which Seven Oaths in the Open Air Can
  35. 35: The Mysterious Monk
  36. 36: The Utility of Windows Which Open on the River
  37. 37: The Crown Changed into a Dry Leaf
  38. 38: Continuation of the Crown Which Was Changed into a
  39. 39: End of the Crown Which Was Turned into a Dry Leaf
  40. 40: Lasciate Ogni Speranza—Leave All Hope Behind, Ye
  41. 41: The Mother
  42. 42: Three Human Hearts Differently Constructed
  43. 43: Delirium
  44. 44: Hunchbacked, One Eyed, Lame
  45. 45: Deaf
  46. 46: Earthenware and Crystal
  47. 47: The Key to the Red Door
  48. 48: Continuation of the Key to the Red Door
  49. 49: Gringoire Has Many Good Ideas in Succession.—Rue Des
  50. 50: Turn Vagabond
  51. 51: Long Live Mirth
  52. 52: An Awkward Friend
  53. 53: The Retreat in Which Monsieur Louis of France Says His
  54. 54: Little Sword in Pocket
  55. 55: Chateaupers to the Rescue
  56. 56: The Little Shoe
  57. 57: THE BEAUTIFUL CREATURE CLAD IN WHITE. (Dante.)
  58. 58: The Marriage of Phoebus
  59. 59: The Marriage of Quasimodo