Tag: Victor Hugo

  • Les Miserables

    Les Miserables

    The episcopal palace of D ” ” adjoins the hospital. The episcopal palace was a huge and beautiful house, built of stone at the beginning of the last century by M. Henri Puget, Doctor of Theology of the Faculty of Paris, Abb‚‚‚‚‚‚‚© of Simore, who had been Bishop of D ” ” in 1712. This…

  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame

    The Hunchback of Notre Dame

    In the middle of the hall, opposite the great door, a platform of gold brocade, placed against the wall, a special entrance to which had been effected through a window in the corridor of the gold chamber, had been erected for the Flemish emissaries and the other great personages invited to the presentation of the…