“The Hunchback of Notre Dame”

France’s recently restored ‘Notre-Dame Cathedral’, features prominently in the 1831 gothic novel  “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame”, by Victor Hugo, adapted for a 1923 silent film starring Lon Chaney Sr,, a 1939 sound film with Charles Laughton and a 1956 feature starring Anthony Quinn:

“…the story follows the deformed church bell-ringer ‘Quasimodo’, the ‘Roma’ street dancer ‘Esmeralda’ …

“…and Quasimodo's guardian, the ‘Archdeacon Claude Frollo’, in 15th-century Paris. 

“All its elements—the ‘Renaissance’ setting, impossible love affairs and marginalized characters…

“…make the work a model of the literary themes of ‘Romanticism’. 

“The novel is considered a classic of French literature and adapted repeatedly for film, stage, television, graphic novels and toys.”

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