![]() Quasimodo watched from one of the galleries of the cathedral as the priest read the penance to the young gypsy. ![]() But Esmeralda had many enemies and one day she was arrested and tried for murder and sorcery.Ĭondemned to die she was led away to confess her sins at the doorway of Notre Dame before being hanged. Quasimodo began to neglect his bells to watch her. Often she would dance in front of the old cathedral, and make her little goat perform its tricks while the crowd cheered. ![]() One day Quasimodo saw a gypsy girl, Esmeralda. The bells were the only ‘voices’ the hunchback could hear, for their peals had made him very deaf. Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer, ugly and deformed but powerfully built, loved only two things – the bells of Notre Dame and the archdeacon of the Cathedral, Claude Frollo, who had adopted him as a child. ![]() Quasimodo looks down on the mob from high above the rose window of the great cathedral of Notre-Dame ![]()
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