Before the huge crowd that packed the cathedral square, Esmeralda stands between two executioners. Suddenly Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre Dame, rushes at the executioners and fells them with his enormous fists. He snatches the gypsy girl in one arm and runs with her into the church. A moment later he appears at the top of the bell tower. Holding the girl above his head, he shows her triumphantly to all of Paris while his thunderous voice roars savagely to the sky: "Sanctuary! Sanctuary! Sanctuary!"
Set amid the riot, intrigue, and pageantry of medieval Paris, Victor Hugo's masterful tale of heroism and adventure has been a perennial favorite since its first publication in 1831 and remains one of the most thrilling stories of all time.

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