#victor hugo's notre-dame de paris

[mask131]

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.

[josh-lanceero]

[laurapetrie]

He could not make up his mind whether she was a human being, a fairy, or an angel.

Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris (1831)

[requiemme]

yuppie, I finally got my book.🥳🥳🥳

[irinabless]

The very moment...

My internal censorship put Esme in clothes, but despite this, I hope that readers will find out the scene

[marysmirages]

Ghost of the Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris (2023)

[frizie-frona]

[can-of-w0rmz]

If I see one more person call The Hunchback Of Notre Dame an “anti-Christian movie” I’m actually going to cry I’m begging you people to use one brain cell in your empty heads for five minutes straight PLEASE

[wedarkacademia]

He could not make up his mind whether she was a human being, a fairy, or an angel.

Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris

[abatelunare]

Perché l'amore è come un albero, nasce da sé, mette profonde radici in tutto il nostro essere e spesso continua a verdeggiare su un cuore in rovina (Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris).

[edwardian-angel]

Maureen O'Hara as Esmeralda

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)

[rupsttus]

awwww hes so smol but already drunker

[josh-lanceero]

doodle doodle

[pizza-hats-of-the-world-1882]

Hugo sexy bracket final round:

Enjolras [les mis] v. Notre dame de paris [nddp/irl]

[the-gilded-chronicles]

Maison de Victor Hugo, Place des Vosges, Paris, France

Get a glimpse into the world of Viktor Hugo, France’s most beloved poet, philosopher, artist and writer and political person

The museum is made in the location of the apartment in which the writer lived during 1832-1848 and it includes parts of the house at Guernsey where he lived in exile during 1855-1870

Photo August 2024

[irinabless]

Notre-Dame de Paris ✨

It turns out interesting: in one of my favorite books ("The Brothers Karamazov") they mention my second favorite book... Yes, now "Notre-Dame de Paris" is my second favorite book. I’ll definitely re-read it too, because everything there is wonderful: the plot, the characters, the humor, the glass, the chemistry between the characters and... Claude’s monologues 💔