Her pet goat Djali also performs counting tricks with a tambourine, an act later used as courtroom evidence that Esmeralda is a witch.Ĭlaude Frollo sends his adopted son Quasimodo to kidnap Esmeralda from the streets. The townsfolk come to the conclusion that the Gypsies have cannibalised baby Agnes the mother flees Rheims in despair, and the deformed child is exorcised and sent to Paris, to be left on thefoundling bed at Notre-Dame.įifteen years later, Agnes-now named La Esmeralda, in reference to thepaste emerald she wears around her neck-is living happily amongst the Gypsies in Paris.
Tragedy strikes, however, when Gypsies kidnap the young baby, leaving a hideously deformed child (the infant Quasimodo) in place. Agnes's birth makes Paquette happy once more, and she lavishes attention and care upon her adored child: even the neighbours begin to forgive Paquette for her past behaviour when they watch the pair. Paquette has become a prostitute after being seduced by a young nobleman, and lives a miserable life in poverty and loneliness. She is the love child of Paquette Guybertaut, nicknamed 'la Chantefleurie', an orphaned minstrel's daughter who lives in Rheims.
She is around 16 years old and has a kind and generous heart.Įsmeralda's birth-name was Agnes. She constantly attracts men with her seductive dances, and is rarely seen without her clever goat Djali. She is a French Roma girl (near the end of the book, it is revealed that her biological mother was a French woman). Esmeralda , born Agnès, is a fictional character in Victor Hugo's 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (or Notre Dame de Paris).
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