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Quotation from The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Notre-Dame de Paris) by Victor Hugo
“And the cathedral was not only society for him, but the universe, and all nature beside.”
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Notre-Dame de Paris), Book Fourth, Chapter III, Immanis pecoris custos, immanior ipse, trans. Isabel F. Hapgood
Hugo describes how Quasimodo, raised within Notre-Dame, knows no world beyond its stones, windows and bells.
Citation: "And the cathedral was not only society for him, but the universe, and all nature beside." — Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Notre-Dame de Paris), Book Fourth, Chapter III, Immanis pecoris custos, immanior ipse, trans. Isabel F. Hapgood. (id the-hunchback-of-notre-dame-q2)
Portrait: Victor Hugo by Étienne Carjat 1876 - full, Étienne Carjat, Public domain.
