He carefully chose his pen and paper with a preference for large bluish sheets that he would fold in two. Victor Hugo was painstakingly meticulous with his manuscripts. The adventures of Quasimodo, Esmeralda, Phébus and Frollo, would soon be adapted into various musicals, ballets, plays, and films… The text was translated into many languages, and Hugo transformed it into an Opera libretto in 1836. In one month’s time, the book had already been re-published 4 times. The novel was met with immediate success. I got back to writing Notre-Dame de Paris on 1 September, and finished the work on 15 January 1831.' Then the July revolution interrupted my writing. In the manuscript, Hugo ties his delay to a lost notebook and the political events of the 1830s: 'I wrote the first three or four pages of Notre-Dame de Paris on 25 July 1830. Notre-Dame de Paris first appeared in March 1831: he had long promised it to his editor, Charles Gosselin, but it took Hugo 3 years to finish his draft, upon which he inscribed 'ANÁIKH' (fatality in Greek), flushed out by the mythical Parisian cathedral.
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