An employee holds a first edition copy of 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' by Victor Hugo with a dust-jacket designed by Quentin Blake during a photocall at Sotheby's action house in London on December 7, 2017.PARIS - Victor Hugo's"The Hunchback of Notre Dame" shot to the top of the Amazon bestseller list Tuesday as firefighters damped down the embers of the blaze which ravaged the ancient cathedral.
But his epic about the tragic fate of the Gypsy girl Esmeralda who captures the heart of Captain Phoebus, the poet Pierre Gringoire, Archdeacon Frollo -- and most of all the hunchback Quasimodo -- helped mobilise the mammoth 19th-century restoration of the monument. "A vast flame, fierce and strong, fragments of which were ever and anon borne away by the wind with the smoke.
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