Esmeralda, born Agnes, is a fictional character in Victor Hugo's 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame (or Notre Dame de Paris). She is a French gypsy girl (near the end of the book, it is revealed that her biological mother was a French woman). She constantly attracts men with her seductive dances, and is rarely seen without her clever goat Djali. She is around 16 years old.