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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...Fra Angelico's saints and angels. In their hellish company the Notre-Dame of Victor Hugo, who, R. A. M. Stevenson says, has treated it as the London atmosphere treats all things, becomes something more than a fabric of romantic rhetoric. Quasimodo swinging with the great bell, Claude Frollo hurled into space, are no longer mere marionettes of melodrama. If you stayed up there long THE GROTESQUE, CALLED LE STRYGE (VAMPIRE), ON THE MAIN FACADE THE CREST OF THE NAVE. NOTRE-DAME THE ROSE WINDOW IN THE NORTH END OF THE TRANSEPT OF NOTRE-DAME enough, you too would yield to their uncanny spell. The very cat that lived with them a few years ago, as it went springing from precipice to precipice of stone wall, as it ran and leaped and crawled over pinnacles and along sharp ledges, seemed like one of the demons come to life, while the stories the gardien used to tell of mad leaps, of the sudden swift jump of the suicide to death, made the blood curdle as no tale of horror on the printed page ever could. The traditions of Notre-Dame are as glorious as its architecture. Of the history of France, from the time of PhilipAugustus, it is the record, according to Viollet-le-Duc; from the beginning of time, he might have written. For the history of France centers around the island, and the history of the island centers around the spot where Notre-Dame replaced the earlier Christian churches of St. Etienne and Ste. Marie, and they had succeeded the Roman temple of Jupiter, and it, most likely, had been erected on the site of an older altar of the Gauls, which had sprung up from the primeval wilderness. All the characters in the obscure drama of events that made the old Lutetia--Julian's little darling city --into the Christian cap...

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