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Fictional character from Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Fictional character

Esmeralda (French:[]), born Agnès, is a fictional character in Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris).

She is a French Roma girl (near the end of the book, it is revealed that her biological mother was a French woman). She constantly attracts men with her seductive dances, and is rarely seen without her clever goat Djali. She is around 16 years old and has a kind and generous heart.

Character history

Esmeralda's birth-name was Agnès.

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She is the love child of Paquette Guybertaut, nicknamed "la Chantefleurie", an orphaned minstrel's daughter who lives in Rheims. Paquette has become a prostitute after being seduced by a young nobleman, and lives a miserable life in poverty and loneliness.

Agnes's birth makes Paquette happy once more, and she lavishes attention and care upon her adored child: eve