The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Notre-Dame de Paris)

Census claim confirmed on both halves. The French Gosselin edition of 1831 is the true first, and the title 'The Hunchback of Notre-Dame' has no counterpart in Hugo's French — it originates with the 1833 Bentley translation, so every English-language 'Hunchback' first descends from a retitling. The major 'first thus' trap runs the other way from the usual: the 1831 Gosselin first is textually INCOMPLETE. Gosselin forced Hugo to drop three chapters — IV.6 'Impopularite' and both chapters of Book V, 'Abbas beati Martini' and the famous 'Ceci tuera cela' — because the manuscript would not fit the contracted two volumes. The first complete text is the Eugene Renduel edition, Paris, 3 volumes 8vo, on sale 17 December 1832, styled 'huitieme edition' although it is the first to print the three chapters and the added note in which Hugo invented a tale of lost-and-recovered manuscript pages. So Gosselin 1831 is the first edition and Renduel 1832 is the first complete edition; both are collected, and a dealer calling Renduel 1832 'the definitive first' is describing text, not priority.