
Theatre· Paris
Le Bossu de Notre-Dame
"The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" (Le Bossu de Notre-Dame) is an 1831 novel by Victor Hugo about Quasimodo, a deformed bell-ringer of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, who falls in love with the beautiful Romani woman Esmeralda. Set in 15th-century France, the story explores themes of beauty, ugliness, fate, and social injustice as Esmeralda becomes entangled in tragedy involving the obsessive archdeacon