Quasimodo
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Quasimodo is the titular protagonist of the French novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo. Born with numerous deformities, most notably a hunched back, Quasimodo serves as the bell-ringer fo
Quasimodo by Luc-Olivier Merson (1889).
"A tear for a drop of water" Esmeralda gives a drink to Quasimodo in one of Gustave Brion's illustrations
Lon Chaney as Quasimodo, Patsy Ruth Miller as Esmeralda in the 1923 film, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Claude Frollo
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Claude Frollo is a fictional Catholic clergyman and the main antagonist of Victor Hugo's 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. He is also an alchemist, Renaissance humanist, and intellectual. In his
Quasimodo
…in which he is abandoned and adopted, accordingly with the Computus, that year's Easter would fall on April 13, making Quasimodo Sunday the 20th), by Claude Frollo, the Archdeacon of Notre Dame, who adopts the baby, names him after the day the baby was found, and brings him up to be the bell-ringer of the cathedral…
Claude Frollo holding infant Quasimodo on the steps of Notre Dame in 1467. Illustration by Luc-Olivier Merson, 1889.