‘The Hunchback of Notre-Dame’ was written by the French poet and novelist Victor Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885), considered one of the greatest French writers, Hugo also wrote the equally acclaimed novel ‘Les Miserables’. First published in 1831, the Romantic Gothic novel tells the story of Notre Dame’s bell ringing hunchback Quasimodo, and his love for the gypsy girl Esmeralda. Set in 1482, the writing is full of descriptive passages of Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral, in order to increase awareness of the value of the Gothic architecture of Paris, which at the time was neglected and often destroyed to be replaced by new buildings.