It saves her, for she captures the heart of the hunchback. Esméralda seeing his thirst, offers him water. NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS: (1482) (1000 SOLEILS OR) HUGO, VICTOR on. Quasimodo is caught and whipped and ordered to be tied down in the heat. Frollo is torn between his lust and the rules of the church. 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. Indeed, this 19th-century French author's books from the epic drama Les Misrables to the classic unrequited love story The Hunchback of Notre Dame have spanned the ages, their themes of morality and redemption as applicable to our times as to his. The story begins during the Renaissance in 1482, the day of the Festival of Fools in Paris. 'If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away,' the larger-than-life Victor Hugo once confessed. The book was written as a statement to preserve the Notre Dame cathedral and not to 'modernize' it, as Hugo was thoroughly against this. 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). It is set in 1482 in Paris, in and around the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris. The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( Notre-Dame de Paris) is an 1831 French novel written by Victor Hugo.

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