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Five different editions of Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame have become bestsellers following Notre Dame fire.

Different editions of author’s 19th-century classic in five of top 10 slots on Amazon France. Jon Henley from The Guardian takes a look at the bestseller list.

Victor Hugo’s 19th-century literary classic Notre-Dame de Paris has soared to the top of France’s online bestseller list after the fire that ravaged the 850-year-old Paris cathedral on Monday night.

By Wednesday morning, different editions of the 1831 novel occupied the first, third, fifth, seventh and eighth slots in Amazon France’s bestseller list, with a history of the gothic architectural masterpiece taking sixth place.

The book is better known in the Anglosphere as The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the title given to its 1833 English translation.

The runaway success confirms a French tendency to seek solace in literature at times of national anguish: A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway’s memoir of his time in the bars and cafés of 1920s Paris, became France’s fastest-selling book after the terror attacks of November 2015.

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