![]() Esmeralda shows sympathy and tenderness towards the other characters but has love only for Captain Phoebus. Four characters in the novel fall in love with her: Quasimodo, Frollo, Captain Phoebus and Pierre Grignoire. Quasimodo is found abandonned as a baby and is adopted by Archdeacon Claude Frollo.Ī central character in the novel is the Gypsy girl Esmeralda. The title character of most English-language translations of the novel is Quasimodo, the cathedral's ugly hunchbacked bell ringer who has been made deaf by the loud bells. The novel's French title refers to the Parisian cathedral in and around which most of the novel takes place. The action takes place in Paris in the late fifteenth century. ![]() The Huncback of Notre Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris) is an 1831 historical fiction novel by the French author Victor Hugo. ![]() ![]() Quasimodo, an oil painting by Antoine Wiertz (1806-1865). ![]()
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