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Notre-Dame de Paris
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Book Summary
Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris is a historical novel set in fifteenth-century Paris, centered on the cathedral of Notre-Dame and the lives of people drawn into its surrounding social and political world. The novel brings together the lives of Esmeralda, Quasimodo, Claude Frollo, and Phoebus de Châteaupers amid questions of desire, social exclusion, power, and fate.
The narrative moves between the cathedral, the streets and squares of Paris, and other
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Released: Aug 27, 2026
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