Notre Dame de Paris: Also Known as The Hunchback of Notre Dame

by Victor Hugo

The priest whitewashes them, the archdeacon scrapes them down; then the populace arrives and demolishes them.

Three hundred and forty-eight years, six months, and nineteen days ago to-day, the Parisians awoke to the sound of all the bells in the triple circuit of the city, the university, and the town ringing a full peal.