![]() Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Book 3, Ch. Tempus edax, homo edacior which I should be glad to translate thus: time is blind, man is stupid. But, beautiful as it has been preserved in growing old, it is difficult not to sigh, not to wax indignant, before the numberless degradations and mutilations which time and men have both caused the venerable monument to suffer…On the face of this aged queen of our cathedrals, by the side of a wrinkle, one always finds a scar. ![]() The church of Notre-Dame de Paris is still no doubt, a majestic and sublime edifice. Thence entered I the recesses of my memory, those manifoldĪnd spacious chambers, wonderfully furnished with
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