![]() ![]() ![]() In addition to promoting a Romantic aesthetic that would tolerate the imperfect and the grotesque, the book also had a simpler agenda: to increase appreciation of old Gothic structures, which had become the object of vandalism and neglect. In 1831, he finally finished Notre Dame de Paris. The second, Hernani, became the subject for a bitter and protracted debate between French Classicists and Romantics. The first, Marion de Lorme (1829), was censored for its candid portrayal of a courtesan. The following year, despite a contract to begin work on a novel called Notre Dame de Paris, he set to work on two plays. His 1827 play, Cromwell, embraced the tenets of Romanticism, which he laid out in the play’s preface. In 1823, Hugo published his first novel, Han d’Islande. In 1822, Hugo married his childhood sweetheart, Adele Foucher, and published his first volume of poetry, which won him a pension from Louis XVIII. Although he studied law, he also founded a literary review to which he and other emerging writers published their work. Hugo, the son of one of Napoleon’s officers, decided while still a teenager to become a writer. Distracted by other projects, Hugo had continually postponed his deadlines for delivering the book to his publishers, but once he sat down to write it, he completed the novel in only four months. On January 15, 1831, Victor Hugo finishes writing Notre Dame de Paris, also known as The Hunchback of Notre Dame. ![]()
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