Hugo's 1831 novel tells the story of bell ringer Quasimodo
was 20th in the list of European literature bestsellers. Other works by Hugo, such as his complete novels and , Hugo describes the cathedral as"a central mother church ... It has the head of one, the limbs of another, the haunches of another, something of all".
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