Excerpt from Notre-Dame<br><br>These characters, black with age and deeply cut into the stone, with certain peculiarities of form and posture belong ing to the Gothic calligraphy, as if to de clare that they had been traced there by some hand of the middle ages - and, above all, the dismal and fatal meaning they conveyed - struck the author forcibly.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.