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Esmeralda, for her part, has fallen hopelessly in love with Captain Phoebus. Unbeknownst to Quasimodo, two other men vie for Esmeralda’s affection: Quasimodo’s adoptive father, Archdeacon Dom Claude Frollo, and the womanizing captain Phoebus de Châteaupers. Quasimodo thereafter falls in love with the dancer and decides to devote himself to protecting her. Esmeralda takes pity on him and offers him a drink of water. During the festival, Quasimodo is elected “Pope of the Fools” and subsequently beaten by an angry mob. Quasimodo first meets Esmeralda at the Feast of Fools, an annual festival parodying ecclesiastical ritual and cardinal elections. Esmeralda has no knowledge of her kidnapping: she lives and travels with the Roma as if she is one of them. Fifteen years before the events of the novel, a group of Roma kidnapped the infant Agnès from her mother’s room. Her biological mother is a former prostitute once known as Paquette la Chantefleurie but now known as Sister Gudule her paternity is unknown. Esmeralda, born Agnès, is perceived to be a French Roma girl. The story centres on Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer of Notre-Dame Cathedral, and his unrequited love for the beautiful dancer La Esmeralda. The Hunchback of Notre Dame is set in Paris during the 15th century. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, historical novel by Victor Hugo, originally published in French in 1831 as Notre-Dame de Paris (“Our Lady of Paris”). Manuscript of The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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