the water flows through the drains and out through the gargoyles’ mouths. So the water falls away from the building. This protects the cathedral's walls from damage. The Hunchback of Notre Dame ...

Much as been written and said about the grand reopening and restoration of France's Notre Dame, perhaps the world’s most famous cathedral, but for its famous gargoyles this is far from their ...

In 15th-century Paris, Clopin the puppeteer tells the story of Quasimodo, the misshapen but gentle-souled bell ringer of Notre Dame ... cheered on by his gargoyle friends Victor, Hugo, and ...

Writer Victor Hugo used the cathedral as a setting for his 1831 work The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. His main character ... cathedral's best-known features - the gargoyles and grotesques.

Fourteen days to go before the cathedral reopens… David Bordes © Rebâtir Notre-Dame de Paris. Five little-known facts about Notre-Dame de Paris The world’s most famous cathedral may be resurrected ...

The actual gargoyles, which are monster-shaped ... drew inspiration from Victor Hugo’s famous book ‘’The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' to create these demonic animal figures with personified ...

The musical begins as the bells of Notre Dame sound through the famed cathedral in fifteenth-century Paris. Quasimodo, the deformed bell-ringer who longs to be 'Out There,' observes all of Paris ...

A medieval Gothic masterpiece, Notre-Dame de Paris (Our Lady of Paris) is one of the French capital's most beloved and visited monuments, celebrated for its rib vaulting, flying buttresses, stunning ...

Notre-Dame has been meticulously restored, with a new spire and rib vaulting, its flying buttresses and carved stone gargoyles returned to their ... he used it as a setting for his 1831 novel “The ...