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THE GRAND HALL. Three hundred and forty-eight years, six months, and nineteen days ago to-day, the Parisians awoke to the sound of all the bells in the triple circuit of the city, the university, an…
PIERRE GRINGOIRE. Nevertheless, as be harangued them, the satisfaction and admiration unanimously excited by his costume were dissipated by his words; and when he reached that untoward conclusion: “…
MONSIEUR THE CARDINAL. Poor Gringoire! the din of all the great double petards of the Saint-Jean, the discharge of twenty arquebuses on supports, the detonation of that famous serpentine of the Towe…
MASTER JACQUES COPPENOLE. While the pensioner of Ghent and his eminence were exchanging very low bows and a few words in voices still lower, a man of lofty stature, with a large face and broad shoul…
QUASIMODO. In the twinkling of an eye, all was ready to execute Coppenole’s idea. Bourgeois , scholars and law clerks all set to work. The little chapel situated opposite the marble table was select…
ESMERALDA. We are delighted to be able to inform the reader, that during the whole of this scene, Gringoire and his piece had stood firm. His actors, spurred on by him, had not ceased to spout his c…
FROM CHARYBDIS TO SCYLLA. Night comes on early in January. The streets were already dark when Gringoire issued forth from the Courts. This gloom pleased him; he was in haste to reach some obscure an…
THE PLACE DE GRÈVE. There remains to-day but a very imperceptible vestige of the Place de Grève, such as it existed then; it consists in the charming little turret, which occupies the angle north of…
KISSES FOR BLOWS. When Pierre Gringoire arrived on the Place de Grève, he was paralyzed. He had directed his course across the Pont aux Meuniers, in order to avoid the rabble on the Pont au Change, …
THE INCONVENIENCES OF FOLLOWING A PRETTY WOMAN THROUGH THE STREETS IN THE EVENING. Gringoire set out to follow the gypsy at all hazards. He had seen her, accompanied by her goat, take to the Rue de …
