Notre-Dame de Paris
Victor Hugo
1802 – 1885
FRPublic Domain
Summary
"Notre-Dame de Paris" by Victor Hugo is a French Gothic novel published in 1831. Set in 15th-century Paris, it tells the tragic story of Quasimodo, the deformed bell-ringer of Notre-Dame Cathedral, the beautiful Romani dancer Esmeralda, and the obsessed Archdeacon Claude Frollo. Their intertwined fates unfold against the backdrop of the magnificent cathedral itself. A cornerstone of Romanticism featuring impossible love and marginalized characters, the novel also served as Hugo's passionate plea for preserving France's endangered Gothic architecture. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Subjects
- Clergy — Fiction
- France — History — Louis XI, 1461-1483 — Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Notre-Dame de Paris (Cathedral) — Fiction
- Paris (France) — History — To 1515 — Fiction
- People with disabilities — Fiction
- Romances