Bill Whitaker reports on how French engineers are rebuilding the spire of Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral after the devastating 2019 fire — and what Victor Hugo has to do with it. Aug 27, 2023 ...

Victor Hugo's role in restoring the cathedral. In 1831, Victor Hugo published his famous novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame (French: Notre Dame de Paris), ...

Symbolic lifting of the statues surrounding the spire of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris marked the beginning of one of the ...

Hugo himself was named to a national heritage committee, and the French state gradually funded restoration works of landmarks across the country, including Notre-Dame de Paris.

Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel “Notre-Dame de Paris,” or “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame,” which not only immortalized the cathedral’s story, but spared it from destruction by inspiring a major ...

It was then that Victor Hugo (1802-1885) built a paper cathedral to save the real one: The novel Notre-Dame de Paris (1831), commonly translated into English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.

After a 2019 fire, the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France, will reopen in December. The president of Friends of Notre-Dame de Paris spoke to Fox News Digital about the restoration.

Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel Notre-Dame de Paris mobilized public sentiment and helped to save the battered cathedral from destruction. The novel portrays Notre Dame as the embodiment of history itself.

Notre-Dame Cathedral, which is more than 800 years old, reopens this weekend in Paris. The event comes more than five years after a devastating fire. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ ...

Victor Hugo’s novel Notre Dame de Paris brought the cathedral back to center stage in the 19th century. The architect Viollet Le Duc renovated it by inserting the famous gargoyles into the ...