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In fact, Claude Frollo was no coed to one of those middle-class families which were called indifferently, in the ieoise~ or the petty nobility This family had inherited from the brothers Paclet the fief of Tirechappe, which was dependent upon the Bishop of Paris, and whose twenty-one houses had been in the thirteenth century the object of so many suits before the official As possessor of this fief, Claude Frollo was one of the twenty-seven seigneurs keeping clai time, his name was to be seen inscribed in this quality, between the Hôtel de Tancarville, belonging to Master François Le Rez, and the college of Tours, in the records deposited at Saint Martin des Champs

Claude Frollo had been destined from infancy, by his parents, to the ecclesiastical profession He had been taught to read in Latin; he had been trained to keep his eyes on the ground and to speak low While still a child, his father had cloistered hie of Torchi in the University There it was that he had grown up, on the rave, serious child, who studied ardently, and learned quickly; he never uttered a loud cry in recreation hour, mixed but little in the bacchanals of the Rue du Fouarre, did not knohat it was to ~dare alapas et capillos laniare~, and had cut no figure in that revolt of 1463, which the annalists register gravely, under the title of "The sixth trouble of the University" He seldou on the ~cappettes~ froe of Dormans on their shaved tonsure, and their surtout parti-colored of bluish-green, blue, and violet cloth, ~azurini coloris et bruni~, as says the charter of the Cardinal des Quatre-Couronnes

On the other hand, he was assiduous at the great and the small schools of the Rue Saint Jean de Beauvais The first pupil who his reading on canon laays perceived, glued to a pillar of the school Saint-Vendregesile, opposite his rostru his pen, scribbling on his threadbare knee, and, in winter, blowing on his fingers The first auditor whom Messire Miles d'Isliers, doctor in decretals, saw arrive every Monday ates of the school of the Chef-Saint-Denis, was Claude Frollo Thus, at sixteen years of age, the young clerk ainst a father of the church; in canonical theology, against a father of the councils; in scholastic theology, against a doctor of Sorbonne