The monstrous hunchback is dressed in a ridiculous robe and carried on his shoulders to walk, according to custom, through the streets of the city.

The winner is Quasimodo, the bell ringer of Notre Dame, who doesn't even need to grimace, he is so ugly. Applicants for this high title stick their faces out of the chapel window. It will be the one who makes the most terrible grimace. To Gringoire's horror, the damned Fleming honors his mystery with the last words and offers to do a much more fun thing - to elect a jester pope. The stocker maitre Kopinol evokes general admiration for his unbeatable, friendly conversations with the disgusting beggar Clopin Truilfou. The townspeople from the Flemish city of Ghent are so colorful that Parisians only stare at them. But the unfortunate poet is unlucky as soon as the actors uttered the prologue, the cardinal appears, and then the ambassadors. The nervous author of the mystery, Pierre Gringoire, orders to begin. Gradually, the audience begins to grumble, and the schoolchildren rage most of all: among them stands the sixteen-year-old blond imp, Jehan, the brother of the learned archdeacon Claude Frollo. The Ambassadors from Flanders and the Cardinal of Bourbon should be welcome to the spectacle. On January 6, 1482, on the occasion of the feast of baptism in the Palace of Justice, they give the mystery 'The Righteous Judgment of the Most Pure Virgin Mary.' A huge crowd gathers in the morning. But from him was born a book about a gypsy woman, a hunchback and a priest. In the back streets of one of the towers of the great cathedral, someone's long decayed hand inscribed the word 'rock' in Greek. French literature summaries - 2021 Short summary - Notre-Dame de Paris - The Hunchback of Notre Dame Victor Hugo

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