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Ep 174 - The Hunchback of Notre Dame, by Victor Hugo

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The Death of a Gypsy Monk

There is a kind of amazing cool action sequence that I was not expecting yeah about like 80% of the way through the book where a mob has come to execute the gypsy woman and Quasimodo is basically defending her from the top of Notre Dame single handedly. Hugo totally kills it he totally wrecks his momentum by switching to some dumb story about like Louis the 11th being a crappy king. It's more of a commentary on royalism than I really am prepared to talk aboutOkay probably okay but yeah it's like Quasimoda just totally ending everybody like he goes like John McLean in one scene. There's a little aside thing at the end again after you find

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