Notre-Dame de Paris

In 1985, Hachette published a single-issue comic adaptation of Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris, scripted by Claude Gendrot and illustrated by the celebrated French artist Paul Gillon. This compact volume distills Hugo's epic novel of Quasimodo, Esmeralda, and the cathedral's shadowy world into a vivid, self-contained graphic narrative. It stands as a notable example of literary adaptation in the European bande dessinée tradition, pairing Gillon's dynamic, expressive linework with the timeless story of passion and injustice in medieval Paris.