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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris, lit. ' Our Lady of Paris ', originally titled Notre-Dame de Paris. 1482 ) is a French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo , published in 1831 .
Quasimodo (from Quasimodo Sunday [1]) is the titular protagonist of the French novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) by Victor Hugo. Born with numerous deformities, most notably a hunched back, Quasimodo serves as the bell-ringer for Notre Dame cathedral in fifteenth century Paris. Although his appearance causes others to treat him cruelly ...
The idea to adapt The Hunchback of Notre Dame came from development executive David Stainton in 1993, who was inspired to turn Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame into an animated feature film after reading the Classics Illustrated comic book adaptation. [6] Stainton then proposed the idea to then-studio chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a 1939 American romantic drama film starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara. [ 3 ] [ 1 ] Directed by William Dieterle and produced by Pandro S. Berman , the film is based on Victor Hugo 's 1831 novel .
Victor Hugo offers an account of a Feast of Fools in his 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, celebrated on January 6, 1482 (Twelfth Night) when Quasimodo serves as the Pope of Fools. The 1939 film adaptation of the novel opens with the Feast of Fools, where Quasimodo is crowned King of Fools.
Notre-Dame used to ring the civil hours 24 hours a day, but starting in the 19th century this was reduced to only between 8am to 9pm to avoid disturbing nearby residents. From medieval times, the hours were marked on the main bells, likely only by the number of hours struck at the top of the hour.
Claude Frollo (French: [klod fʁɔlo]) is a fictional Christian clergyman and the main antagonist of Victor Hugo's 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (original French title: Notre-Dame de Paris). He is also an alchemist, Renaissance humanist, and intellectual.
PopMatters notes "The Hunchback of Notre Dame II both addresses and cheapens the previous movie's notes of melancholy, as it sets about finding Quasimodo a romantic partner". [7] DVD Talk says "the story...somehow stretches what might have once been a 12-minute segment of the Smurfs to over an hour", and concludes that "the whole thing has the ...