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The date September 1 is put in at the paragraph beginning “If it could be given to us men of 1830,” etc.
At the bottom of the last page is written: “January 15, 1831, half past six in the evening.”
NOTE III
The manuscript of Notre Dame de Paris has hardly an erasure. The corrections are confined to a few
titles of chapters.
The chapter “The Story of a Wheaten Cake” was originally entitled “The Story of the Courtesan’s
Child.”
The chapter “Showing that a Priest and a Philosopher are Not the Same” was “The Philosopher
Married.”
The chapter “The Little Shoe” was “The Goat Saved.”
Footnotes
Note 1. The murder of the Bishop of Liège is, I admit, an exception. [back]
Note 2. Brian de Bois Guilbert is the corresponding character in Scott,—a character equally passionate,
but not, I think, analysed so powerfully. [back]
Note 3. I am not here, of course, arguing any question as to the relative greatness of Byron as compared
with Wordsworth or Coleridge, who were then still alive. But neither Wordsworth nor Coleridge had,
like Byron, a European name. [back]
Note 4. >Fate, destiny. [back]
Note 5. Notre Dame de Paris was begun July 30, 1830. [back]
Note 6. The term Gothic used in its customary sense is quite incorrect, but is hallowed by tradition. We
accept it, therefore, and use it like the rest of the world, to characterize the architecture of the latter half
of the Middle Ages, of which the pointed arch forms the central idea, and which succeeds the
architecture of the first period, of which the round arch is the Derailing feature.—AUTHOR’S
NOTE. [back]
Note 7.
In truth it was a sorry game
When in Paris Dame Justice,
Having gorged herself with spice,
Set all her palace in a flame.
The application of these lines depends, unfortunately, on an untranslatable play on the word ´pice, which