Jojo commented on The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Illustrated Classics) by Victor Hugo
In fifteenth-century Paris, a disfigured man named Quasimodo, who was abandoned as an infant in …
So book III is where Hugo gets really caught up in architectural history, and BOY HOWDY is he salty about it! As far as he's concerned nothing worthwhile has been built since 1500. I love it.
I also realise now that I've picked entirely the wrong publication of this book. It's hard when the copy I'm reading is mid-20th-century-ish and has no publishing info listed.