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Quotation from The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Notre-Dame de Paris) by Victor Hugo
“When they tried to detach the skeleton which he held in his embrace, he fell to dust.”
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Notre-Dame de Paris), Book Eleventh, Chapter IV, The Marriage of Quasimodo, trans. Isabel F. Hapgood
The last sentence of the novel, describing the misshapen skeleton found in the vault of Montfaucon clasping a woman's.
Citation: "When they tried to detach the skeleton which he held in his embrace, he fell to dust." — Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Notre-Dame de Paris), Book Eleventh, Chapter IV, The Marriage of Quasimodo, trans. Isabel F. Hapgood. (id the-hunchback-of-notre-dame-q8)
Portrait: Victor Hugo by Étienne Carjat 1876 - full, Étienne Carjat, Public domain.
