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<p>[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 9508678, member: 56"]I think most of the original stonework survives, and the spire that was lost was 19th C anyhow.</p><p><br /></p><p>It's my understanding that in the early 19th C the cathedral was practically a ruin and there was talk of having it demolished and cleared away. Then, in 1831, Victor Hugo wrote the Hunchback of Notre Dame:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Victor Hugo initially agreed to write Notre-Dame de Paris in 1828. Due to Hugo's other literary projects, the novel fell by the wayside until 1830. A primary theme of the novel is that of the value of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_architecture" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_architecture" rel="nofollow">Gothic architecture</a>, which was neglected and often destroyed to be replaced by new buildings or defaced by replacement of parts of buildings in a newer style. For instance, the medieval stained glass panels of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre-Dame_de_Paris" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre-Dame_de_Paris" rel="nofollow">Notre-Dame de Paris</a> had been replaced by white glass to let more light into the church.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunchback_of_Notre-Dame#cite_note-3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunchback_of_Notre-Dame#cite_note-3" rel="nofollow">[3]</a> A few years earlier, Hugo had already published a paper entitled Guerre aux Démolisseurs</i> (<i>War [declared] on the Demolishers</i>)<i> specifically aimed at saving Paris' medieval architecture.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunchback_of_Notre-Dame#cite_note-4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunchback_of_Notre-Dame#cite_note-4" rel="nofollow">[4]</a> The agreement with his original publisher, Gosselin, was that the book would be finished that same year, but Hugo was constantly delayed due to the demands of other projects. In the summer of 1830, Gosselin demanded that Hugo complete the book by February 1831. Beginning in September 1830, Hugo worked nonstop on the project thereafter</i>. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunchback_of_Notre-Dame" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunchback_of_Notre-Dame" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunchback_of_Notre-Dame</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 9508678, member: 56"]I think most of the original stonework survives, and the spire that was lost was 19th C anyhow. It's my understanding that in the early 19th C the cathedral was practically a ruin and there was talk of having it demolished and cleared away. Then, in 1831, Victor Hugo wrote the Hunchback of Notre Dame: [I]Victor Hugo initially agreed to write Notre-Dame de Paris in 1828. Due to Hugo's other literary projects, the novel fell by the wayside until 1830. A primary theme of the novel is that of the value of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_architecture']Gothic architecture[/URL], which was neglected and often destroyed to be replaced by new buildings or defaced by replacement of parts of buildings in a newer style. For instance, the medieval stained glass panels of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre-Dame_de_Paris']Notre-Dame de Paris[/URL] had been replaced by white glass to let more light into the church.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunchback_of_Notre-Dame#cite_note-3'][3][/URL] A few years earlier, Hugo had already published a paper entitled Guerre aux Démolisseurs[/I] ([I]War [declared] on the Demolishers[/I])[I] specifically aimed at saving Paris' medieval architecture.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunchback_of_Notre-Dame#cite_note-4'][4][/URL] The agreement with his original publisher, Gosselin, was that the book would be finished that same year, but Hugo was constantly delayed due to the demands of other projects. In the summer of 1830, Gosselin demanded that Hugo complete the book by February 1831. Beginning in September 1830, Hugo worked nonstop on the project thereafter[/I]. [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunchback_of_Notre-Dame[/URL][/QUOTE]
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