All 6 Uses of

niche
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

the broidered and dentated cordon of the eight and twenty royal niches;†
Chpt 1.3.1

Three important things are to-day lacking in that façade: in the first place, the staircase of eleven steps which formerly raised it above the soil; next, the lower series of statues which occupied the niches of the three portals; and lastly the upper series, of the twenty-eight most ancient kings of France, which garnished the gallery of the first story, beginning with Childebert, and ending with Phillip Augustus, holding in his hand "the imperial apple."†
Chpt 1.3.1

Again, a young girl, more bold and saucy than was fitting, brushed the priest's black robe, singing in his face the sardonic ditty, "niche, niche, the devil is caught."†
Chpt 1.4.6 *

Again, a young girl, more bold and saucy than was fitting, brushed the priest's black robe, singing in his face the sardonic ditty, "niche, niche, the devil is caught."†
Chpt 1.4.6

Several moments after passing the bell chamber, he came upon a little landing-place, built in a lateral niche, and under the vault of a low, pointed door, whose enormous lock and strong iron bars he was enabled to see through a loophole pierced in the opposite circular wall of the staircase.†
Chpt 2.7.4

Definitions:

(1) (niche)
a smaller market within a larger market -- such as the market for scissors designed for people who are left-handed

or:

a role for which someone is especially well-suited

or:

a shallow recess, cranny or crevice
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

More rarely, niche can refer to a role for a species within an ecosystem.