Notre-Dame de Paris

Victor Hugo wrote this novel when French society of the time was still shocked and traumatized by the events of the Revolution of 1789-1793, and also by the exhausting Napoleonic wars, which had brought both so much glory and so much misery. The author staged a piece of the Middle Ages. He reflects many aspects of the Middle Ages: in the French Revolution, in the causes that produced it; in arbitrariness and boundless despotism, in the inflexibility of organisms that were historically created to maintain equilibrium and balance. Do the scenes of the Revolution not seem to us like those where beggars attack the cathedral to save Esmeralda