Nous sommes � Paris, en 1482. La belle boh�mienne Esmeralda danse dans les rues au son d'un tambourin. Sa jeunesse et sa beut� attirent l'attention de beaucoup d'hommes: l'archidiacre de Notre-Dame, le capitaine des archers, Phoebus de Ch�teaupers, le po�te Pierre Gringoire qui devient son mari. Quasimodo, le sonneur de cloches de la cath�drale, un homme pauvre, bossu, borgne et sourd, est aussi tr�s amoureaux d'elle... Mais qui est cette belle Esmeralda? Et comment r�pond-elle � l'amour de ces hommes?
After Napoleon III seized power in 1851, French writer Victor Marie Hugo went into exile and in 1870 returned to France; his novels include The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) and Les Misérables (1862).
This poet, playwright, novelist, dramatist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, and perhaps the most influential, important exponent of the Romantic movement in France, campaigned for human rights. People in France regard him as one of greatest poets of that country and know him better abroad.