Victor Hugo's 'The Hunchback of Notre-Dame' shot to the top of the Amazon bestseller list Tuesday as firefighters damped down the embers of the blaze which ravaged the ancient cathedral.
The dramatic blaze at Notre-Dame Cathedral in central Paris has sent many searching for copies of Victor Hugo's classic novel. AFP/FRANCOIS GUILLOT
But his epic about the tragic fate of the Gypsy girl Esmeralda who captures the heart of Captain Phoebus, the poet Pierre Gringoire, Archdeacon Frollo — and most of all the hunchback Quasimodo — helped mobilise the mammoth 19th-century restoration of the monument. “A vast flame, fierce and strong, fragments of which were ever and anon borne away by the wind with the smoke.
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