We offer you the famous novel by French literature classic Victor Hugo, “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame” (1831), the first historical novel written in French. The novel paints fifteenth-century Paris and the grand work of Gothic art. In Hugo, legend has equal standing with history: “A book has no claims on history, except for an account written with certain knowledge and due care—but only in broad strokes and excerpts, describing the condition of morals, beliefs, laws, arts, and finally, civilization in the fifteenth century. However, that is not the main thing in the book. If it has one virtue, it is that it is a work created by imagination, caprice, and fantasy.” The novel’s immense popularity is ensured by the author’s view of the eternal struggle between two principles—good and evil, mercy and cruelty, compassion and intolerance, feeling and reason.