Victor Hugo

EDITION INTEGRALE EXCEPTIONNELLE Plongez dans la lecture d'un des plus grands chefs-d'oeuvre de la litt rature Fran aise dans une tr s belle dition broch e. Dans le Paris du XVe si cle, une jeune et superbe gitane appel e Esm ralda danse sur le parvis de la cath drale Notre-Dame. Sa beaut fait chavirer les coeurs de beaucoup d'hommes et bouleverse l'archidiacre de Notre-Dame, Claude Frollo. Tiraill entre son d sir obsessionnel et les r gles de l'Eglise, Frollo tente de l'enlever avec l'aide de son sonneur de cloches, Quasimodo le bossu. Esmeralda est sauv e par une escouade d'archers, command e par le capitaine de la garde Phoebus de Ch teaupers... Victor Hugo (1802-1885), est un po te, dramaturge et prosateur romantique consid r comme l'un des plus importants crivains de langue fran aise. Il est aussi une personnalit politique et un intellectuel engag qui a jou un r le majeur dans l'histoire du XIXe si cle. Publi en 1832, Notre-Dame de Paris rencontra tout de suite un tr s grand succ s populaire. Ce roman sublime et captivant est un incontournable de la litt rature classique et ravira les lecteurs de tous ges.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris) is an 1831 French novel written by Victor Hugo. It is set in 1482 in Paris, in and around the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris. The book tells the story of a poor barefoot Gypsy girl (La Esmeralda) and a misshapen bell-ringer (Quasimodo) who was raised by the Archdeacon (Claude Frollo). The book was written as a statement to preserve the Notre Dame cathedral and not to 'modernize' it, as Hugo was thoroughly against this. The story begins during the Renaissance in 1482, the day of the Festival of Fools in Paris. Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer, is introduced by his crowning as Pope of Fools. Esm ralda, a beautiful 16-year-old gypsy with a kind and generous heart, captures the hearts of many men but especially Quasimodo's adopted father, Claude Frollo. Frollo is torn between his lust and the rules of the church. He orders Quasimodo to get her. Quasimodo is caught and whipped and ordered to be tied down in the heat. Esm ralda seeing his thirst, offers him water. It saves her, for she captures the heart of the hunchback.