" Notre-Dame de Paris " was a novel written by Victor Hugo. It was about Claude, the vice-bishop of Notre-Dame de Paris in the 15th century, who was sanctimonious and vicious. He first loved and then hated and persecuted Esmeralda, the girl of the Kitty race. The story of the ugly and kind-hearted bell ringer Quasimodo sacrificing himself to save the girl. It was a novel full of religious emotions and social criticism, and also a political fable during the French Revolution.