Claude Frollo

He was born in 1446/47, in the family of minor nobles. The family name "de Tirechappe" (French: de Tirechappe) was given after the name of one of the two fiefs (the second was Moulin; in a conversation with his brother, he mentions that he wants to buy the fief). He grew up to be a quiet and reserved child. From childhood, he was destined for the church service and was taught to "lower his eyes and speak in a low voice." He grew up with a copy of the missal and a lexicon. He was sent to study at the College of Torchi, where he proved himself to be a diligent and capable student, with a strong interest in the sciences. He did not participate in the revelries of other students, nor in the rebellion of 1463, which was recorded in the chronicles as the "Sixth University Rebellion." At the age of sixteen, he could compete in mystical theology with any father of the Church, in canonical theology with any member of the Council, and in scholastic theology with any doctor of the Sorbonne. By the time he was twenty, he had earned degrees in all four faculties: theology, law, medicine, and the liberal arts. In 1466, he became an orphan when his parents died of the plague. Claude's younger brother, Jean, a baby who was breastfed by the miller's wife, remained in Claude's care. In the same year, Claude Frollo was ordained as a priest: "His character, his knowledge, and his position as a vassal of the Bishop of Paris opened the doors of the church to him. At the age of twenty, with the special permission of the papal curia, he was appointed a priest of Notre-Dame Cathedral; the youngest of all the cathedral priests, he served in the chapel known as the altare pigrorum (the chapel of the lazy), where Mass was celebrated late in the evening. On the following Sunday, the 14th of Fomino, in the year 1467, a young priest took in an ugly child who had been abandoned in the cathedral's manger, naming him Quasimodo, both in honor of the day he was found and to commemorate his "subhuman".

Among the many faces illuminated by the crimson flames of the bonfire, there was one that seemed to be more absorbed in watching the dancer than the others. It was a stern, closed, and gloomy face. The man, whose clothes were obscured by the crowd around him, looked no more than thirty-five years old; yet he was already bald, with only a few tufts of sparse gray hair remaining on his temples. His broad and high forehead was lined with wrinkles, but his deep-set eyes sparkled with an extraordinary youthful fervor, a thirst for life, and a hidden passion. He stared at the gypsy girl, and as the sixteen-year-old, carefree girl danced and fluttered, delighting the crowd, his face grew darker. At times, a smile replaced a sigh, but the smile was even more sorrowful than the sigh itself. He was a tall, broad-shouldered man with pale skin. He was physically strong and had a strong, clear voice.

Claude Frollo's temperament can be described as phlegmatic, with occasional bursts of choler, caused by passionate love and spiritual exaltation. We see a man who is passionate and strives for perfection in knowledge. The archdeacon's only constant passion is alchemy, as he is unable to fully master the secrets of the craft. As he exhausts all possibilities of serving God, Frollo becomes disillusioned with the church. It is unclear whether he still believes in God. And if so, in whom or in what, in reality? His religious fanaticism is a desire to follow the rules of the outside, but not of the inside. Having comprehended all that medieval science could give him, the priest gradually renounced it as well: "Your science of man is nothing! Your science of the stars is nothing!" Perhaps his passion for the gypsy Esmeralda can be interpreted in this way. This is also the case with his love for his brother, to whom he initially gives his whole self — but over time, Claude and Jean become completely different and alien to each other. An important trait of the archdeacon is his desire to establish patriarchal relationships and truly masochistic, dependent connections. {{char}} hates women and is always embarrassed by their attention, but he can't deny that he desires them.