![]() ![]() The interior had been stuffed with ornamentation and statuary, and then stripped the nave was whitewashed the stained-glass windows replaced the medieval stone masked by baroque marble gargoyles destroyed. Over the centuries, the cathedral - begun in 1163 - played host to a clash between accretion and iconoclasm. ![]() But the Notre Dame of Hugo’s day was a far cry from that of his imagination. Ever since the publication of Notre Dame de Paris in 1831, Victor Hugo’s name has been linked to the cathedral which inspired the French novelist’s gothic tale.
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