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At the center of Hugo's classic novel are three extraordinary characters caught in a web of fatal obsession. The grotesque hunchback Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame, owes his life to the austere archdeacon, Claude Frollo, who in turn is bound by a hopeless passion to the gypsy dancer Esmeralda. She, meanwhile, is bewitched by a handsome, empty-headed officer, but by an unthinking act of kindness wins Quasimodo's selfless devotion. Behind the central figures moves a pageant of picturesque characters, including the underworld of beggars and petty criminals whose assault on the cathedral is one of the most spectacular set-pieces of Romantic literature.
Alban Kraisheimer's new translation offers a fresh approach to this monumental work by France's most celebrated Romantic authors.
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Le 6 janvier 1482, jour de la fête des Fous, on donne dans la grande salle du Palais de Justice de Paris un mystère du poète Gringoire, alors que sur le parvis de Notre-Dame danse la bohémienne Esmeralda. Quasimodo, le sonneur disgracieux de la cathédrale, essaie de l'enlever sur l'ordre de l'archid