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How 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' inspired the cathedral's 19th-century revival

  • Written by Julia Walker, Assistant Professor of Art History, Binghamton University, State University of New York
The gargoyles that sit on Notre Dame today were installed as a nod to the cathedral's past.Noemiseh91/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

On April 15, people around the world watched in horror as a voracious fire consumed the medieval wooden roof of Paris’s Notre Dame cathedral and felled its spire.

The following day brought some measure of relief:...

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