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Notre-Dame de Paris Quotes by Victor Hugo: Context & Meanings

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Isabel F. Hapgood — Translator · French → English

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Nothing renders one so adventurous as not being able to feel the place where one’s pocket is situated.

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“Nothing renders one so adventurous as not being able to feel the place where one’s pocket is situated.”

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Hugo’s narrator jokes that having nothing left to lose can make Gringoire unexpectedly bold as he ventures farther into danger.

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Notre-Dame de Paris, represented by Project Gutenberg #2610 in an English translation. The narrator makes the comic remark while the penniless Gringoire moves through Paris; the English wording is translation-layer text, not Hugo’s original French phrasing.

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Isabel F. Hapgood — Translator · French → English

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