Cyrano among others ..

Well the original beauty and the beast was written in the 1700s, the original hunchback was written in the 1800s

Horror films originally became semi popular as men came back from WWI deformed. Before then horror films were often avoided for religious reasons and general unease, but after fathers, brothers, and husbands came back disfigured people were more open to “crimes against god” like Frankenstein

are all french men deformed?