Question: What year was the book that inspired the short silent film Esmeralda published?
Sentence (from "The Laboratory of Mephistopheles"): The Laboratory of Mephistopheles (French: Le Cabinet de Méphistophélès ), initially released in Britain and America as Laboratory of Mephistopheles and also known as The Cabinet of Mephistopheles and The Devil's Laboratory, was an 1897 short silent film directed by Georges Méliès, loosely inspired by the Faust legend.
Relevant evidence: No