

The prerequisites for creating an epochal work were natural cultural processes that took place in France in the first third of the 19th century: historical literature was popular in literature, writers turned to the romantic atmosphere of the Middle Ages, and the public struggle for the protection of ancient architectural monuments in which Hugo took direct part.

The idea of the novel “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame” arose from Hugo in the early 20th century and finally took shape by the middle of 1828.
