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Best Selling Books by Victor HugoVictor Hugo is the author of Les Misérables - Volume Ii - Cosette (2009), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (2018), Les Misérables Volume V Victor Hugo (2017), Les Misérables Volume III Victor Hugo (2017), Notre-dame De Paris (2017).
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Les Misérables - Volume Ii - Cosette
release date: Jan 20, 2009
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
release date: Aug 15, 2018
Les Misérables Volume V Victor Hugo
release date: Sep 02, 2017
Les Misérables Volume III Victor Hugo
release date: Sep 02, 2017
release date: Oct 11, 2017
The Novels of Victor Hugo, Fully Translated: Ninety-Three, Tr. by Jules Gray. 2v
release date: Feb 09, 2018
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
release date: Nov 05, 2020
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (Illustrated)
release date: Mar 17, 2021
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
release date: Feb 07, 2012
Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo
release date: Jun 02, 2021
release date: Sep 02, 2015
release date: Jun 27, 2015
release date: Feb 09, 2018
Sea Stories by Victor Hugo (Illustrated & Annotated)
release date: May 20, 2020
The Novels of Victor Hugo, Fully Translated: The Laughing Men, Tr. Bellina Phillips. 4v
release date: Aug 27, 2015
Le Misérables (Annotated)
release date: May 20, 2020
Les Miserables Part Fifth
release date: Apr 06, 2024
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Illustrated Edition)
release date: Dec 03, 2023
Les Miserables - Volume 1
release date: Dec 17, 2017
The HUNCHBACK of NOTRE DAME by Victor Hugo
release date: Jul 13, 2017
Les Miserables - Volume 2
release date: Jan 04, 2017
Les Misérables - Volume 1
release date: Jul 22, 2017
Les Misérables - Volume 2
release date: Jul 22, 2017
The HUNCHBACK of NOTRE DAME, VICTOR HUGO, LARGE 14 Point Font Print
release date: Jul 07, 2016
Three hundred and forty-eight years, six months, and nineteen days ago to-day, the Parisians awoke to the sound of all the bells in the triple circuit of the city, the university, and the town ringing a full peal.The sixth of January, 1482, is not, however, a day of which history has preserved the memory. There was nothing notable in the event which thus set the bells and the bourgeois of Paris in a ferment from early morning. It was neither an assault by the Picards nor the Burgundians, nor a hunt led along in procession, nor a revolt of scholars in the town of Laas, nor an entry of "our much dread lord, monsieur the king," nor even a pretty hanging of male and female thieves by the courts of Paris. Neither was it the arrival, so frequent in the fifteenth century, of some plumed and bedizened embassy. It was barely two days since the last cavalcade of that nature, that of the Flemish ambassadors charged with concluding the marriage between the dauphin and Marguerite of Flanders, had made its entry into Paris, to the great annoyance of M. le Cardinal de Bourbon, who, for the sake of pleasing the king, had been obliged to assume an amiable mien towards this whole rustic rabble of Flemish burgomasters, and to regale them at his Hôtel de Bourbon, with a very "pretty morality, allegorical satire, and farce," while a driving rain drenched the magnificent tapestries at his door.What put the "whole population of Paris in commotion," as Jehan de Troyes expresses it, on the sixth of January, was the double solemnity, united from time immemorial, of the Epiphany and the Feast of Fools.On that day, there was to be a bonfire on the Place de Grève, a maypole at the Chapelle de Braque, and a mystery at the Palais de Justice. It had been cried, to the sound of the trumpet, the preceding evening at all the cross roads, by the provost''s men, clad in handsome, short, sleeveless coats of violet camelot, with large white crosses upon their breasts.So the crowd of citizens, male and female, having closed their houses and shops, thronged from every direction, at early morn, towards some one of the three spots designated.Each had made his choice; one, the bonfire; another, the maypole; another, the mystery play. It must be stated, in honor of the good sense of the loungers of Paris, that the greater part of this crowd directed their steps towards the bonfire, which was quite in season, or towards the mystery play, which was to be presented in the grand hall of the Palais de Justice (the courts of law), which was well roofed and walled; and that the curious left the poor, scantily flowered maypole to shiver all alone beneath the sky of January, in the cemetery of the Chapel of Braque.The populace thronged the avenues of the law courts in particular, because they knew that the Flemish ambassadors, who had arrived two days previously, intended to be present at the representation of the mystery, and at the election of the Pope of the Fools, which was also to take place in the grand hall.It was no easy matter on that day, to force one''s way into that grand hall, although it was then reputed to be the largest covered enclosure in the world (it is true that Sauval had not yet measured the grand hall of the Château of Montargis). The palace place, encumbered with people, offered to the curious gazers at the windows the aspect of a sea; into which five or six streets, like so many mouths of rivers, discharged every moment fresh floods of heads. The waves of this crowd, augmented incessantly, dashed against the angles of the houses which projected here and there, like so many promontories, into the irregular basin of the place. In the centre of the lofty Gothic façade of the palace, the grand staircase, incessantly ascended and descended by a double current, which, after parting on the intermediate landing-place, flowed in broad waves along its lateral slopes,-the grand staircase, I say, trickled incessantly into the place, like a cascade into a lake.
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