Our Lady of Paris

Grace and I took a tour of Notre Dame. Here our some of our pictures along with quotes from Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

"The Church of Notre-Dame at Paris is doubtless still a sublime and majestic building."

"we are led to these conclusions,- that architecture was, up to the fifth century, the chief register of humanity; that during this space of time no idea of any elaboration appeared in the world without being built into masonry"

"[Quasimodo] seemed not only to inhabit it but to be its natural tenant."

"The other statues, those of monsters and demons, did not hate Quasimodo; he looked too much like them for that."

"The monsters were his friends, and protected him. Thus he had long conversations with them."

"And the cathedral was not only company for him, it was his universe; nay, more, it was Nature itself... 

...He never dreamed that there were other hedge-rows than the stained-glass windows in perpetual bloom; 

...other shade than that of the stone foliage always budding, loaded with birds in the thickets of Saxon capitals;

 ...other mountains that the colossal towers of the church; 

...or other ocean than Paris roaring at their feet."