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Notre-Dame de Paris
Also known as:
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
by Victor Hugo

PREFACE.

A few years ago, while visiting or, rather, rummaging about
Notre-Dame, the author of this book found, in an obscure nook of one
of the towers, the following word, engraved by hand upon the wall:--
ANArKH.
These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the
stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic caligraphy
imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the
purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which
had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy
meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply.
He questioned himself; he sought to divine who could have been that
soul in torment which had not been willing to quit this world without
leaving this stigma of crime or unhappiness upon the brow of the
ancient church.
Afterwards, the wall was whitewashed or scraped down, I know not
which, and the inscription disappeared. For it is thus that people have
been in the habit of proceeding with the marvellous churches of the
Middle Ages for the last two hundred years. Mutilations come to them

from every quarter, from within as well as from without. The priest
whitewashes them, the archdeacon scrapes them down; then the
populace arrives and demolishes them.
Thus, with the exception of the fragile memory which the author of this
book here consecrates to it, there remains to-day nothing whatever of
the mysterious word engraved within the gloomy tower of
Notre-Dame,--nothing of the destiny which it so sadly summed up. The
man who wrote that word upon the wall disappeared from the midst of
the generations of man many centuries ago; the word, in its turn, has
been effaced from the wall of the church; the church will, perhaps,