It was on this day in 1831 that Victor Hugo finished his novel Notre-Dame de Paris, known to us as The Hunchback of Notre Dame. ... Hugo was asked to compose a poem in honor of Louis-Philippe, France's first constitutional king... Because of the distraction, Victor Hugo had to keep asking his publishers for deadline extensions for The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Once he finally sat down to write it, he finished it in only four months. https://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php%3Fdate=2007%252F01%252F15.html