Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.

Victor Hugo

January 15, 1831: On this day, Victor Hugo finished writing The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. Today it is a classic, but Hugo had humbler ambitions in telling the tale of Esméralda and Quasimodo: He wanted his contemporaries to be more aware of the importance of Gothic architecture.

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