Hunchback of Notre Dame, The

noun

1. French Notre Dame de Paris. a novel (1831) by Victor Hugo.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1. (1831) A historical novel by Victor Hugo. Set in the Middle Ages, it tells the story of Quasimodo, a grotesquely deformed bell ringer at the Cathedral (see also cathedral) of Notre Dame de Paris, who falls in love with a beautiful gypsy girl, Esmeralda.

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You’ve heard of Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre Dame, the actor Brian Cox announces at the start of “Quasi,” but you haven’t heard this version.

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In her memoirs, Hugo’s wife wrote that, while writing The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the author purchased “a huge grey knitted shawl, which swathed him from head to foot, locked his formal clothes away so that he would not be tempted to go out and entered his novel as if it were a prison. He was very sad.”

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The great and controversial French Romantic poet and novelist — “Les Miserables,” “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” “The Legend of the Ages” — had run afoul of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, dictator of the Second Empire.

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In Disney's 1996 film "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," the genocidal Judge Claude Frollo instructs Captain of the Guard Phoebus to burn a family of gypsies inside their home.

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Next cast as the alluring gypsy Esmeralda opposite Laughton in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” the 18-year-old O'Hara, chaperoned by her mother, came to Hollywood in the summer of 1939.

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