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]]Quasimodo is a central character from French author Victor Hugo's 1831 novel Notre Dame de Paris. Against Hugo's wishes, most English translations of the work have renamed it The Hunchback of Notre Dame, making Quasimodo the title character. Quasimodo is a tragic protagonist in the story and is a type of noble savage. Character Quasimodo was born with extreme physical deformities, which Hugo describes as a huge wart that covers his right eye and a severely hunched back. He is found abandoned on the doorsteps of Notre Dame on a Quasimodo Sunday, the first Sunday after Easter, by the archdeacon Claude Frollo, who adopts the baby and brings him up to be the bell-ringer of the cathedral. Due to the loud ringing of the bells, Quasimodo also becomes deaf. Looked upon by the general populace of Paris as a monster, Quasimodo later falls in love with the beautiful Gypsy girl Esmeralda and rescues her when she is e

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