Notre-Dame de Paris: the origins of the masterful work of Victor Hugo

Le Figaro offers you a new literary series "Revise your classics". Find, each week, an interview devoted to the study of a flagship work of French literature. The opportunity to travel through the ages, discover the brightest minds and have the reading keys necessary to understand their masterpieces.

For this first episode, we invite you to explore Notre-Dame de Paris in the company of Jean-Marc Hovasse, professor of French literature at Sorbonne University, specialist and biographer of Victor Hugo (to be found at Fayard editions).

LE FIGARO. - How to explain the imperishable success of Notre-Dame de Paris ?

Jean-Marc HOVASSE. - “What a beautiful thing that Notre-Dame ! I recently re-read three chapters, the bag of mobsters among others. This is what is strong! I believe that the greatest character of genius is, above all, strength. ” Thus expressed Gustave Flaubert at 31, while working at Madame Bovary , in a

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