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Criticisms: The endings in the book are mostly unhappy, though sometimes with wit: “Phoebus de Chateaupers also came to a tragic end. He married."
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'''''The Hunchback of Notre Dame''''' (French: ''Notre Dame de Paris'') is a book by [[Victor Hugo]] written in 1831. The book tells the story of the gypsy girl Esmeralda who falls in love with the captain Phoebus, but who herself is desired by Archbishop Claude Frollo. While being sent to be hanged, Esmeralda is rescued by the hunchback Quasimodo, who she had shown kindness to by giving him a glass of water while he was on the pillory.  The book also talks about [[architecture]], and the effects that the [[printing press]] will have on it.
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'''''The Hunchback of Notre Dame''''' (French: ''Notre Dame de Paris'') is a book by [[Victor Hugo]] written in 1831. A love story with a message about soThe book tells the story of the gypsy girl Esmeralda who falls in love with the captain Phoebus, but who herself is desired by Archbishop Claude Frollo. While being sent to be hanged, Esmeralda is rescued by the hunchback Quasimodo, whom she had shown kindness to by giving him a glass of water while he was on the pillory.  The book also talks about [[architecture]], and the effects that the [[printing press]] will have on it.
    
==Inspiration==
 
==Inspiration==
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*One of the themes of the book, which commences with the words spoken by Claude Frollo 'the one will kill the other,' [Book 5: Chapter 2], talks about architecture and the effect the printing press will have on it.  Hugo argues that before the printing press that architecture was the way humanity recorded ideas, and now that books have become common, that architecture will now no longer serve this purpose.
 
*One of the themes of the book, which commences with the words spoken by Claude Frollo 'the one will kill the other,' [Book 5: Chapter 2], talks about architecture and the effect the printing press will have on it.  Hugo argues that before the printing press that architecture was the way humanity recorded ideas, and now that books have become common, that architecture will now no longer serve this purpose.
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== Criticisms ==
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The endings in the book are mostly unhappy, though sometimes with wit:
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“Phoebus de Chateaupers also came to a tragic end. He married.”<ref>https://www.tor.com/2021/07/14/architecture-and-melodrama-celebrating-victor-hugos-notre-dame-de-paris/</ref>
 
==Adaptations==
 
==Adaptations==
 
*Esmeralda (1905).  Earliest known adaptation.
 
*Esmeralda (1905).  Earliest known adaptation.
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