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This book is a love novel written by the great French writer Hugo in 1831. It tells a story that happened in France in the 15th century in a bizarre and contrasting way: Claude, the vice-president of Notre Dame de Paris, was sanctimonious and vicious, loved first and then hated, and persecuted the Gypsy girl Esmeralda. The ugly but kind-hearted bell ringer Quasimodo sacrifices his life to save the girl. The novel exposes the hypocrisy of religion, declares the bankruptcy of asceticism, praises the kindness, friendship and self-sacrifice of the lower working people, and reflects Hugo's humanitarian thoughts.