Read The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Jean Valjean, a loaf of bread and nineteen years; Hugo's Paris from the sewers to the barricades.

London and Paris during the Terror; "it is a far, far better thing that I do".

D Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis against the Cardinal; all for one.

Two aristocrats play seduction as a game by letter, in the last decade before the guillotine.

Three hours of the Paris theatre world of the 1830s, made in secret under the Occupation.

Belmondo, Seberg and the jump cut; the New Wave arrives in one film.

Revolutionary Paris rendered building by building, once the patches landed.

A murderer with a perfect nose in 18th-century France distils the scent of girls.