![]() 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 Agnès. ![]() 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). Paquette "la Chantefleurie" Guybertaut (mother)Įsmeralda ( French: ), born Agnès, is a fictional character in Victor Hugo's 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (French: Notre Dame de Paris). ![]() Illustration of Esmeralda and Djali from Victor Hugo and His Time. ![]()
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