Chapter 24 Notre Dame de Paris (2) Volume 4 Kind People (2)

2 Claude Frollo Indeed, Claude Frollo was no mediocrity. In the last century, middle-bourgeois families were often collectively and abruptly referred to as upper bourgeoisie or petty aristocracy.Claude was born in such a middle-class family.The family inherited from the Parkley brothers the estate of Tireschape, formerly owned by the Bishop of Paris, which was contested in the ecclesiastical courts in the thirteenth century for twenty-one houses on the estate.As the present owner of the fief, Claude Frollo was one of the seven times twenty plus one lords entitled to annual tribute at Paris and its gates, and his name was long registered in this capacity. In the archives of the Pastoral Saint-Martin, it is arranged between François Rez-Jun's Don Garville residence and the College of Tours②.

① This was a counting method at that time, that is, one hundred and forty-one. ② According to the alphabetical order of French, Thiel Sharp is arranged between Tongaville and Tours. Claude Frollo's dedication to the priesthood was determined by his parents as a child.The family taught him to read in Latin from an early age, and taught him to lower his eyebrows and speak softly.Still just a tiny bit old, his parents sent him to live a secluded life at Torsch College in the university town.It was there that he grew up eating Mass and dictionaries. Besides, the boy was melancholy, dignified, serious, studious, and quick to understand.Never shouted at the entertainment, hardly joined in the Dionysian carnival in the Rue Fauard, knew nothing about slapping and pulling hair, and the chronicler solemnly respected the event in 1463. He was not seen once during the riots dubbed the "Sixth University City Riot."He seldom laughed, and seldom teased anyone, either at the poor divinity students of Montarguy College, who always wore a short hood called a Capet, and were called Capet students; To the fellows of Dormont Theological Seminary on scholarship, with their heads shaved clean, they wore tweed cloaks of dark green, blue, and purple, four holy crowns, which the cardinal called sky blue and Brown ④.

① The original text is Latin. ②Here refers to hard study of Latin and Greek. ③ "Four Holy Crowns" is the name of the church, named after the four saints. ④ The original text is Latin. On the contrary, he was very diligent in going to and from the large and small schools in the Rue Jean-de-Bovey.Whenever the abbot of St. Peter's in Val began to preach the canon, he always found one of the pupils who had arrived first, and stood opposite his pulpit, close to one of the pillars of the school of Saint-Wendreuzzier, that is, the Kremlin. Lord Frollo, I saw him carrying a horn pencil case with him, biting a quill, scribbling on his worn knees, and breathing on his fingers in winter.Every Monday morning, when Chevre-Saint-Denis school opens, Master Mir de Islier, the doctor of teaching, always sees a student running up first, out of breath, this is Claude Frollo.Thus the young student of the seminary, at sixteen years of age, could rival the priests of the church in esoteric theology, the priest of the council in scriptural theology, and the Ph.D. of the Sorbonne in scholastic theology. comparable to.

As soon as he finished his studies of theology, he hurriedly delved into the teachings, plunged from the Encyclopedia of Proverbs to the Collection of Charlemagne's Edicts, and devoured one teaching after another with a strong thirst for knowledge. , such as the decree of Theodore bishop of Isper, the decree of Bouchard bishop of Volme, the decree of Yves bishop of Chartres; Gregory IX's Royal Decree Collection, Honorius III's "On Meditation" ② Letters.The era from Bishop Theodore in 618 to Pope Gregory in 1227 was an era in which civil and religious rights struggled and developed in the chaotic Middle Ages. The turbulent era of the book is penetrating, well-informed, and memorized thoroughly.Digesting the teachings, he threw himself on medicine and the liberal arts.Studied herbal medicine and plaster science.In one fell swoop he became a specialist in fevers and contusions, fractures and abscesses.If Jacques de Esper were alive, he would have accepted him as a physician, and if Richard Ellen had lived, he would have accepted him as a surgeon.In terms of art, the books that must be read from bachelor's, master's to doctoral degrees have also been browsed one by one.He also learned Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. This triple temple was rarely visited by people at that time.In science, he learned from others and absorbed everything, to the point of fanaticism.By the age of eighteen, he had passed the test of all four intelligences.To the young man, the only purpose of life was to seek knowledge.

① Gratian (?—about 1160), an Italian monk and scribe.This refers to a scripture called "Edict" compiled by him. ②The original text is Latin. ③ Free arts refer to seven kinds of grammar, rhetoric, dialectics, music, arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy. Probably at this time, the summer of 1466 was extremely hot, and the plague raged, killing more than 40,000 people in the Viscount fiefdom of Paris alone. According to John de Troyes, "King Such a clever and witty gentleman as the famous astrologer Arnoux".It was rumored in the university town that the plague in Teilsharp Street was particularly ravaging.And Claude's parents happened to live in their fiefdom on this street.

The young student panicked and ran home in a hurry.As soon as I entered the house, I learned that my parents had passed away the night before.His little brother, who was still an infant, was still alive, unattended, lying in the cradle crying.This is the only relative left by the whole family to Claude.The young man picked up his little brother, full of thoughts, and left home.Before that, he was only doing academics wholeheartedly, and only then began his real life. This disaster was a crisis in Claude's life.Orphan and elder brother, who became a patriarch at nineteen, he felt suddenly awakened from the ruminations of the seminary and returned to the realities of this world.So, full of compassion, I love my little brother and do my best.It is a rare and touching thing that a love for books, which used to be only blind, is now full of human love.

The emotion developed to such a grotesque degree that, in a mind as unworldly as his, it was like first love.This poor student left his parents since he was a child, barely knew his parents, and was sent to a hermit. It can be said that he was imprisoned in a high-walled courtyard surrounded by books. In terms of developing one's own intelligence, one needs to develop one's imagination in literature, so one has not had time to consider where to place one's love.This little brother without mother and father, this little child, suddenly fell from the sky into his arms, making him a new man.He suddenly discovered that there are other things in the world besides the speculative philosophy of the Sorbonne University and Homer's poems; he discovered that people need feelings, and if there is no warmth and love in life, then life will only become a kind of operation. The gears are dry and boring, and they squeak and rattle, piercingly piercing.However, at his age, what replaces fantasies is still just fantasies, so he can only imagine: kinship, brotherhood, is the only thing needed; a little brother to love is enough to fill the gap in the whole life.

So he loved his little John with all his passion, which was already very deep, blazing, and single-minded.This poor, frail little creature, with fine features, blond, curly hair, and ruddy cheeks, an orphan who had no one to depend on but the care of another orphan, excited Claude from the bottom of his heart. Now that he was serious and thoughtful, he began to consider, with infinite compassion, how to raise John.He took great care of his little brother and took care of him wholeheartedly, as if this little brother was a baby bump that would break at the first touch.To the little one, he is not just a big brother, but also a mother.

Little Johann lost his mother when he was still nursing, and Claude handed him over to a nurse to nurse him.In addition to the fief of Tire Sharp, he also inherited from his father the fief of the mill, which was attached to the monastery of Juntuy Fontaine.The mill was on a hill near Winchester (Bisset) Castle.The miller's wife is raising a beautiful child, and it's not far from a college town.Claude sent little John to feed her himself. From then on, Claude felt that he was dragged down, and he was extremely serious about life. Missing his little brother not only became his entertainment, but also became his learning goal.Determined to dedicate everything to the future he owes to God, and determined not to ask for a wife or have children for the rest of his life, and his wife and children are his brother's happiness and future.So more focused than ever on his teaching mission.Because of his talent, his erudition, and his direct vassalship of the Bishop of Paris, the doors of all churches were open to him.At the age of twenty, he became a priest thanks to the special permission of the Holy See, and as the youngest priest of Notre Dame de Paris, he served the altar called the Altar of Lazy People because of the late mass.

Thus, more than ever, he buried his head in his favorite books, which he sometimes put down just to run off to the Mills for an hour.This tireless desire for knowledge and self-discipline are rare at his age, so he quickly won the respect and praise of the monastery.His reputation of learning and learning had spread over the walls of the monastery to the people, but in a slightly distorted way - as was often the case in those days - he acquired the nickname of wizard. On Quasimodo days, he would go to the altar of the idlers to give Mass to the idlers.This altar is just past the choir door that leads to the right side of the nave, next to the Madonna.At this time, he had just finished mass and was about to go back. He heard several old women chattering around the abandoned crib, which caught his attention.

① Refers to the affiliation of the fief. ②The original text is Latin. ③ Refers to civilians, which is a derogatory term for civilians in the Middle Ages. So to the poor little thing, so hateful and in danger, past.Seeing how miserable, deformed, and helpless this little thing is, he couldn't help but think of his little brother, and suddenly a hallucination appeared in his mind, as if he saw the same tragic situation: If he died, his dear little brother would die. John would suffer the same fate, tragically thrown on this foundling's wooden bed.All these thoughts came to my mind at the same time, and a heart of compassion arose spontaneously, so I took the child away. He dragged the child out of the sackcloth bag and saw that it was indeed extremely ugly.The poor little devil had a wart over his left eye, his head tucked into his shoulder blades, his spine arched, his sternum protruding, his legs bent, but he looked lively, although it was impossible to tell what language he was babbling. From his cry, he knew that the child was quite strong and powerful.When Claude saw this ugly figure, he became more and more sympathetic, and out of love for his little brother, he swore to himself that he must bring up this abandoned baby. This kind deed done by the younger brother is paid for.This is a kind of merit investment in his younger brother, a small good deed he has saved up for his younger brother in advance, in case the little rascal will need this kind of coin one day, because the road money to heaven only accepts this kind of coin. He christened the adopted son Quasimodo, either to commemorate the day of his adoption, or to signify how imperfect the poor little thing was, almost to the rough rough. Can't talk about it.Quasimodo was, indeed, one-eyed, stooped, bow-legged, and barely human. ① ① The original meaning of Quasimodo in Latin is "almost".