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Victor Hugo Wrote ‘Hunchback of Notre-Dame’ to Save the Great Cathedral

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The author believed that it was the duty of the people of his age to preserve structures like Notre Dame—and so he wrote a 1,000-page novel to convince them to save the cathedral.

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