#The Hunchback Of Notre-Dame

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Trivia of the day: In Victor Hugo's "Notre-Dame de Paris", Esmeralda is executed by hanging on the famous "gibet de Montfaucon". Yet this is quite untrue historically speaking, as, at the time era the novel takes place, when women were executed, they were either burned or walled alive.

This choice was part of Victor Hugo's personal fight and battle to abolish the death penalty in France, and can be understood by looking at his wider works. In his various poetic works he had an habit of using the "gibet de Montfaucon" as THE symbol of death penalty in all of its horror, cruelty and madness. The gibet of Montfaucon was indeed the biggest, most imposing, most used and most famous execution-monument of Paris, and Hugo made a lot of efforts to depict it as some sort of bloody and barbaric architectural embodiment of the "dark ages", even going as far as to compare it to a Celtic cromlech where pagan human sacrifices are taking place.

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[studiotriggerfan397]

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris, meaning "Our Lady of Paris" originally titled "Notre-Dame de Paris. 1482") by Victor Hugo.

Echoes of Gothic Romance mixed with scathing social/religious criticism.

A profoundly moving book.

[thegothiclibrary]

Carnival Celebrations in Gothic Literature

It’s Carnival season in the Catholic liturgical year—a time for wild celebration and indulging in excess before the restrictions and solemnity of Lent. The holiday is celebrated mainly in regions with large Catholic populations, including parts of Western Europe and the Americas, but historically it has been especially associated with Italy. Celebrations usually involve parades, colorful…

[opera-ghosts]

April 1. 1914 the Opera Notre Dame from Austrian composer Franz Schmidt (1874-1939) was first time on stage. The Hof-Operntheater Wien, today Wiener Staatsoper has a great success with this work. Here we see a poster from one of this performance in the first production.

[none-ofthisnonsense]

Watching the Hunchback of Notre-Dame!

[lastoneout]

This website is too mobile focused these days. Reblog and tell me what your desktop/laptop background is.

[trashpidgeon48]

Leitmotifs drive me insane, like I hear *repeated melody that has an association with a person, idea, or situation* and I go *tears up the fucking rug like a dog*

[frenchublog]

💃...

[goryhorroor]

in the silent era of horror, the word "horror" began to be used as a generic signation, and more often instead used was the words "weird" and "mythical and mysterious." this is a time when adaptions were so rapidly made like frankenstein and edgar allan poe's works dominated this era. horror as a genre wasn't specifically "created" or the word wasn't used until dracula in the 1930s.

[scurviesdisneyblog]

"Hellfire" storyboards for The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)

[weaver-z]

I'm watching The Hunchback of Notre Dame 2 out of morbid curiosity and I can't emphasize enough how ridiculously flamboyant this villain is. This isn't even queercoding. They need to invent a new word for whatever Sarousch is.

[drdepper]

Just a silly little lad.

[dantedoodles]

Idk

[ladydeath-vanserra]

maybe an unpopular opinion but I miss flat animation art in movies. Hunchback, Prince of Egypt, Land Before Time, The Iron Giant, Treasure Planet. maybe it's just bec I'm a 90s kid but there's just Something About It

[cheeseburger443]

*accidentally* wet his robe and made him wear this:

I'm so sorry Frollo...(It will happen again).