The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
This article is about the Victor Hugo novel. For other uses, see The Hunchback of Notre Dame (disambiguation).
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris, “Our Lady of Paris”) is a French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831. Title The novel’s original French title, Notre-Dame de Paris, is a double entendre: it refers to Notre Dame Cathedral, on which the story is centered, and Esmeralda, the novel’s main character who is “our lady of Paris” and the center of the human drama within the story[citation needed]. Frederic Shoberl’s 1833 English translation was published as The Hunchback of Notre Dame (which became the generally used title in English), which refers to Quasimodo, Notre Dame’s bellringer. Ba… Continue ReadingSource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunchback_of_Notre-Dame