![]() As such, two years went by before he finally set about drafting Notre-Dame de Paris, which he broached from the perspective of a historian advocating against improvements to Paris’ timeless monuments. ![]() Enticed by the offer of reissuing previous works and of future publications, Hugo hastened to accept but balked at complying his time was already consumed by more ambitious projects: his play Hernani, his novel Le Dernier Jour d’un condamné and his collection of poems Les Orientales. Thus, beginning in 1828, the publisher Gosselin commissioned a historical saga from a successful young writer, Victor Hugo, to be set in Paris at the time of Louis XI. It followed a trend in France for historical novels inspired by the popular Ivanhoe and Quentin Durward of Sir Walter Scott. ![]() The first edition of Notre-Dame de Paris appeared in 1831, titled Notre-Dame de Paris. ![]()
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