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Now, in 1482, Quasirown up He had becoer 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 Dairace of God

So Quasier of the chimes of Notre-Dame

In the course of time there had been forer to the church Separated forever from the world, by the double fatality of his unknown birth and his natural deformity, imprisoned from his infancy in that irown used to seeing nothing in this world beyond the religious walls which had received him under their shadow Notre-Darew up and developed, the egg, the nest, the house, the country, the universe

There was certainly a sort ofharmony between this creature and this church When, still a little fellow, he had dragged himself tortuously and by jerks beneath the shadows of its vaults, he seemed, with his human face and his bestial limbs, the natural reptile of that humid and sombre pavement, upon which the shadow of the Roe forht hold,suspended fro, it produced upon his adopted father, Claude, the effect of a child whose tongue is unloosed and who begins to speak

It is thus that, little by little, developing always in sy there, hardly ever leaving it, subject every hour to the mysterious impress, he came to resemble it, he incrusted hiral part of it His salient angles fitted into the retreating angles of the cathedral (if we ure of speech), and he seemed not only its inhabitant but ht almost say that he had assumed its form, as the snail takes on the for, his hole, his envelope There existed between him and the old church so profound an instinctive synetic affinities, so many material affinities, that he adhered to it soh and wrinkled cathedral was his shell