Disney had to make several changes to The Hunchback of Notre Dame's source material to make it more family-friendly.

The location is the town of El Paris. When ten-year-old boy Quasimodo shows signs of deformity, his well-to-do parents place him in the charge of the town’s mysterious evangelist, Frollo.

The key characters are Quasimodo, a deformed, cathedral bell ringer, Esmeralda, the sympathetic Gypsy girl he adores, Esmeralda’s lover, Captain Phoebus and the evil Archdeacon Frollo ...