Hunchback of Notre Dame, The


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  1. (1831) a novel by Victor HUGO about a kind but ugly HUNCHBACK (= someone whose back has a large raised part on it) called QUASIMODO, who rings bells in the CATHEDRAL of Notre Dame in Paris in the 15th century. He secretly loves a beautiful woman called Esmeralda, and when she is wrongly punished for being a murderer, he tries to save her.
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