Pierre Gringore
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Pierre Gringore was a popular poet and playwright during the Renaissance in France.
Representation of Pierre Gringore on the hotel Malherbe at Caen
Pierre Gringoire. Illustration by Gustave Brion for The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is a French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831. The title refers to the Notre-Dame Cathedral, which features prominently throughout the novel. It focuses on the
Pierre Gringore
…Martin Luther. A loosely fictionalized vision of Gringore, referred to as Pierre Gringoire, appears as an important character in Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and films based on it, except the 1996 animated Disney film (in which his character is combined with Captain Phoebus) and its 2002 direct-to-video…
1st edition cover
Illustration from Victor Hugo et son temps (1881)
Lon Chaney and Patsy Ruth Miller in the 1923 film adaptation