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• Hunchback of Notre Dame, The
  Hunchback of Notre Dame, The

  noun

  a novel (1831) by Victor Hugo.
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  The Hunchback of Notre Dame

  (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.

Hunchback of Notre Dame, The

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noun

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

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame Cultural  

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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The Hunchback of Notre Dame

He played the title role in The Hunchback of Notre Dame in 1939, and the couple worked on twelve films together, most notably Witness for the Prosecution in 1957, for which they were both Oscar-nominated.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2025

Other projects, like Pinocchio, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Bambi are in earlier stages of development, too.

From The Verge ● Apr. 30, 2020

We rented The Hunchback of Notre Dame for family movie night.

From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2018

And he’s already working on his next film – an adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, “reinventing it somewhat”, though he doesn’t want to give away more than that.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 18, 2018

"The Hunchback of Notre Dame" was next turned out—written in five months—and was a great success.

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