![]() ![]() Tragedy strikes, however, when Romani (in the novel called Gypsies) kidnap the young baby, leaving a child which they consider hideously deformed (the infant Quasimodo) in place. ![]() Agnes's birth makes Paquette happy once more, and she lavishes attention and care upon her adored child: even the neighbours begin to forgive Paquette for her past behaviour when they watch the pair. ![]() Paquette has become a prostitute after being seduced by a young nobleman, and lives a miserable life in poverty and loneliness. She is the love child of Paquette Guybertaut, nicknamed "la Chantefleurie", an orphaned minstrel's daughter who lives in Rheims. She is around 16 years old and has a kind and generous heart.Įsmeralda's birth-name was Agnès. She constantly attracts men with her seductive dances, and is rarely seen without her clever goat Djali. She is a French Roma girl (near the end of the book, it is revealed that her biological mother was a French woman). Paquette "la Chantefleurie" Guybertaut (mother)Įsmeralda ( French: ), born Agnès, is a fictional character in Victor Hugo's 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (French: Notre Dame de Paris). ![]() Illustration of Esmeralda and Djali from Victor Hugo and His Time. ![]()
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