Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside Cathedral Notre Dame. Among jugglers and other entertainers, Esmeralda, a sensuous gypsy ...

In 1831, Victor Hugo published his famous novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame (French: Notre Dame de Paris), which drew attention to the deteriorating condition of the cathedral. Hugo urged the ...

In 15th-century Paris, Clopin the puppeteer tells the story of Quasimodo, the misshapen but gentle-souled bell ringer of Notre Dame, who was nearly killed as a baby by Claude Frollo, the Minister ...

Two churches across the Atlantic from one another share similar stories. Notre Dame and St. John the Divine are both symbols ...

Explore the story of the French gothic masterpiece, Notre Dame de Paris (Our Lady of Paris) from its earliest origins in the 12th century and its illustrious 850-year history to its painstaking ...