Victor Hugo 
Notre-Dame de Paris: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame 

Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo  
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.



The novel has been described as a key text in French literature and has been adapted for film over a dozen times, in addition to numerous television and stage adaptations, such as a 1923 silent film with Lon Chaney,  a 1939 sound film with Charles Laughton, and a 1996 Disney animated film with Tom Hulce.



The novel sought to preserve values of French culture in a time period of great change, which resulted in the destruction of many French Gothic structures and threatened to trivialise the vibrancy of 15th-century France. The novel made Notre-Dame de Paris a national icon and served as a catalyst for renewed interest in the restoration of Gothic form.