Notre-Dame de Paris

Author: Victor Hugo (France)
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: The novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is one of Victor Hugo's most sensational works of Romantic literature. Set against the backdrop of 15th-century France under the rule of Louis XI, the story tells the tragic tale of an innocent Bohemian girl who suffers persecution, exposing the treachery and hypocrisy of the clergy, the barbarity and cruelty of the Inquisition, the debauchery and shamelessness of the nobility, and the tyranny and brutality of the king. The work vividly reflects the anti-feudal and anti-clerical consciousness, as well as the praise for the common people.