: It was 1482, the day of the feast of fools. The protagonist, Quasimodo, otherwise known as the Hunchback of Notre Dame, has been named the ugliest person in Paris. The antagonist of this story is the archdeacon Claude Frollo. Frollo uses Quasimodo as a personal slave and keeps him in a high tower. One day, Quasimodo looks out of the tower and sees the beautiful gypsy dancer La Esmerelda. La Esmerelda is dancing in the town square when a troubled poet named Pierre Gringoire attacks her. Quasimodo springs into action and saves La Esmerelda. However, when Phoebus de Chateaupers arrives, he suspects that it was Quasimodo who attacked La Esmerelda. Quasimodo is later tried and publicly humiliated. Esmerelda helps Quasimodo by giving him water. To save Quasimodo's life La Esmeralda agrees to marry Phoebus. Frollo is quite angry with this plan because he is in love with La Esmeralda. Esmeralda returns home with Febo and on the way home Frollo repeatedly stabs Febo. Esmeralda then falsely confesses to having killed him and is sentenced to hang. Right before La Esmeralda is g...