My favorite thing about Victor Hugo is that the Notre Dame Cathedral was a huge eyesore on the verge of collapsing and was planned to be demolished but Victor Hugo was like āhey š¦ I like that buildingā and wrote The Hunchback of Notre Dame to save it. and it worked
In the book he described the cathedral in the state it was in but also in comparison to what it looked like in the 15th century before it got all fucked up in the French Revolution. His book got translated into a fuck ton of languages and was distributed all around Europe. Tourists who were fans of him would go to see it while in Paris and were appalled to see just how bad of shape it was in and it started to become stain on parisā reputation.
So finally the king funded the Hella expensive restoration which I imagine was one really fucking gnarly project, the structure itās self being the tip of the ice burg because of how many religious artifacts and statutes and junk that had been ruined.
So thanks Vicky thatās one hell of a beautiful tower.
So youāre telling me that we still have the Notre Dame Cathedral because of fanfiction?
yes.
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Look what I found! Only got one floorplan, but added guesses as to room assignment anyways ;D
K, the tub is not terribly romantic, but doesnāt it look very coffin-ish? And probably not big enough for two peopleā¦ siiiighā¦.Ā
pics from:
http://www.hgghh.org/exhibit/onlinetour/gallier-house/foyer-hall/Ā
and
Iām revising the room assignment slightly bc Iāve been there and Louis needs his own actual room:
^Iām sorry that there are rooms designated asĀ āslave quarters,ā thatās not my captioning, thatās what the floor plan had written on it. That may be part of why I donāt see the floor plan hosted on the Gallier House website link that I had up there, but I donāt know.
There are a number of spooky tales from Louisiana, but one of the most enthralling is that of Manchac Swamp. First of all, Manchac is rumored to be haunted. Itās also rumoured to be the haunt of Rougarou, the Cajun werewolf. As well as that, itās said to be haunted by Julia Brown, a once practicing voodoo priestess, who put a curse on the entire town the day she died. Legend says that on the day of her funeral in 1915, a deadly hurricane ripped through the town, destroying three villages and killing a number of people. A number of curious visitors to the swamp have reported hearing shrill screams from a disembodied woman.
^This could be the swamp from IWTV! Itās in Louisiana, it stretches to LakeĀ
Pontchartrain.
“Claudia had wrapped Lestat’s body in a sheet before I would evenĀ touch it, and then, to my horror, she had sprinkled it over with theĀ long-stemmed chrysanthemums. So it had a sweet, funereal smell as IĀ lifted it last of all from the carriage. It was almost weightless, as limpĀ as something made of knots and cords… I went deeper and deeper in with Lestat’sĀ remains, though why, I did not know. And finally, when I couldĀ barely see the pale space of the road and the sky which was comingĀ dangerously close to dawn, I let his body slip down out of my armsĀ into the water. I stood there shaken, looking at the amorphous formĀ of the white sheet beneath the slimy surface. The numbness which hadĀ protected me since the carriage left the Rue Royale threatened to liftĀ and leave me flayed suddenly, staring, thinking: This is Lestat. This is all of transformation and mystery, dead, gone into eternal darkness.ā – Louis de Pointe du Lac, Interview with the Vampire
life:
A crescent moon seen over Manhattan skyscrapers in 1946. (Andreas FeiningerāThe LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #NYC
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