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Quotation from The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Notre-Dame de Paris) by Victor Hugo

“This will kill that. The book will kill the edifice.”

Victor Hugo (spoken by Claude Frollo)

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Notre-Dame de Paris), Book Fifth, Chapter II, This Will Kill That, trans. Isabel F. Hapgood

Portrait of Victor Hugo

Hugo opens his essay on printing and architecture by asking what the archdeacon meant, pointing from a printed book to the cathedral.

Citation: "This will kill that. The book will kill the edifice." — Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Notre-Dame de Paris), Book Fifth, Chapter II, This Will Kill That, trans. Isabel F. Hapgood. (id the-hunchback-of-notre-dame-q4)

Portrait: Victor Hugo by Étienne Carjat 1876 - full, Étienne Carjat, Public domain.

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