![]() ![]() There was certainly a sort of mysterious and pre–existing harmony between this creature and this church. ![]() Notre–Dame had been to him successively, as he grew up and developed, the egg, the nest, the house, the country, the universe. Separated forever from the world, by the double fatality of his unknown birth and his natural deformity, imprisoned from his infancy in that impassable double circle, the poor wretch had grown used to seeing nothing in this world beyond the religious walls which had received him under their shadow. In the course of time there had been formed a certain peculiarly intimate bond which united the ringer to the church. So Quasimodo was the ringer of the chimes of Notre–Dame. He had become a few years previously the bellringer of Notre–Dame, thanks to his father by adoption, Claude Frollo,-who had become archdeacon of Josas, thanks to his suzerain, Messire Louis de Beaumont,-who had become Bishop of Paris, at the death of Guillaume Chartier in 1472, thanks to his patron, Olivier Le Daim, barber to Louis XI., king by the grace of God. ![]() You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today! The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser. ![]()
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