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Quasimodo   Listen
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Quasimodo  n.  (Fiction) The main character in Victor Hugo's novel "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". The novel was first published in French under the title "Notre Dame de Paris". Quasimodo is a deformed and ugly hunchback who is bellringer at the cathedral of Notre Dame during the reign of Louis XI. He rescues a gypsy girl Esmeralda, falsely convicted of a crime and about to be excuted, and carries her to sanctuary in the cathedral. Near the end of the book he dies while again rescuing her from an abductor. In a movie made in 1923 Quasimodo was portrayed by the actor Lon Chaney, whose impressive makeup and superb acting drew many plaudits. His shout of "Sanctuary! Sanctuary!" when rescuing Esmeralda is still sometimes imitated for humorous or dramatic effect.






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"Quasimodo" Quotes from Famous Books



... The next day was Quasimodo Sunday, or the Sunday after Easter. Gourgues and his men remained quiet, making ladders for the assault on Fort San Mateo. Meanwhile the whole forest was in arms, and, far and near, the Indians were wild with excitement. They beset the Spanish fort till not a soldier could venture out. The ...
— Pioneers Of France In The New World • Francis Parkman, Jr.

... out to him their secret dens and the secluded places of rendezvous where they met, drank vile liquors, and, under the maddening influence of absinthe and alcohol, plotted their crimes and atrocities of every description. This man, another Quasimodo in point of hideous aspect, had been dismissed from the detective service because of his inability to keep sober, but he had not forgotten the resources of his profession, and money lavishly bestowed upon him made him Captain de Morcerf's most ...
— Monte-Cristo's Daughter • Edmund Flagg



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