It saves her, for she captures the heart of the hunchback. Esméralda seeing his thirst, offers him water. Click on Accept all to consent to the use of cookies for analysis and advertising purposes, Customise to set your choices. Quasimodo is caught and whipped and ordered to be tied down in the heat. Notre-Dame de Paris Victor Hugo - Three extraordinary characters caught in a web of fatal obsession are at the centre of Hugos novel. Frollo is torn between his lust and the rules of the church. More commonly known as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Victor Hugos Romantic novel of dark passions and unrequited love, Notre-Dame de Paris, is translated. Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer, is introduced by his crowning as Pope of Fools.Įsméralda, a beautiful 16-year-old gypsy with a kind and generous heart, captures the hearts of many men but especially Quasimodo’s adopted father, Claude Frollo.

The story begins during the Renaissance in 1482, the day of the Festival of Fools in Paris. Notre-Dame de Paris Victor Hugo - Three extraordinary characters caught in a web of fatal obsession are at the centre of Hugo's novel. Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified. The book was written as a statement to preserve the Notre Dame cathedral and not to 'modernize' it, as Hugo was thoroughly against this. Phoemixx Classics Ebooks, History - 555 pages. The book tells the story of a poor barefoot Gypsy girl (La Esmeralda) and a misshapen bell-ringer (Quasimodo) who was raised by the Archdeacon (Claude Frollo). 1482) is a French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831.

It is set in 1482 in Paris, in and around the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris. Our Lady of Paris, originally titled Notre-Dame de Paris. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris) is an 1831 French novel written by Victor Hugo.

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