# Notre-Dame de Paris prints Esmeralda as a public ‘bohémienne’ type for a mass novel Date: 1831 ## The fact In March 1831 Notre-Dame de Paris made a young ‘bohémienne’ the public face of a bestseller, a typed exotic that later stage and film repeated. It is one event. ## Context The book also campaigned for Gothic fabric and for a foundling’s dignity. Split monument-access and the 1862 poverty novel. [Victor Hugo](/people/victor-hugo)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death. Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers date the row. ## Evidence and sources Gutenberg’s Notre-Dame and Britannica independently describe Esmeralda as the novel’s racialised-adjacent public figure. Official or archival record: Notre-Dame de Paris — public-domain English (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2610; Project Gutenberg). ## Significance A mass-novel minority type is a stereotype path, not a 20th-century statute. 1831 is not Viollet-le-Duc’s later works. A mass-novel minority type is a stereotype path, not a 20th-century statute. ## What is established and what is not Established: 1831 public Esmeralda plot-type. Not established: a unique harm coefficient for later stage versions. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Victor Hugo. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date, signatory, or non-occurrence; a demonstrated forgery; or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of other causes. Contribution type is direct. They are not a public rating. ## People - Victor Hugo: https://factrail.ai/people/victor-hugo ## Drivers - Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights ## Sources - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2610 - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victor-Hugo ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/hug-esmeralda-type-1831