Congratulations to: Quasimodo (108)

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Congratulations to: Quasimodo (108)

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108

In reality, he was born about 14XX. The site sucks with - much - ...

That is, Quasimodo of Victor Hugo.

I like him.

One of his comments:

The end chapter of 'Notre-Dame de Paris', by Victor Hugo wrote:CHAPTER IV. THE MARRIAGE OF QUASIMODO.

We have just said that Quasimodo disappeared from Notre-Dame on the day of the gypsy's and of the archdeacon's death. He was not seen again, in fact; no one knew what had become of him.

During the night which followed the execution of la Esmeralda, the night men had detached her body from the gibbet, and had carried it, according to custom, to the cellar of Montfauçon.

Montfauçon was, as Sauval says, "the most ancient and the most superb gibbet in the kingdom." Between the faubourgs of the Temple and Saint Martin, about a hundred and sixty toises from the walls of Paris, a few bow shots from La Courtille, there was to be seen on the crest of a gentle, almost imperceptible eminence, but sufficiently elevated to be seen for several leagues round about, an edifice of strange form, bearing considerable resemblance to a Celtic cromlech, and where also human sacrifices were offered.

Let the reader picture to himself, crowning a limestone hillock, an oblong mass of masonry fifteen feet in height, thirty wide, forty long, with a gate, an external railing and a platform; on this platform sixteen enormous pillars of rough hewn stone, thirty feet in height, arranged in a colonnade round three of the four sides of the mass which support them, bound together at their summits by heavy beams, whence hung chains at intervals; on all these chains, skeletons; in the vicinity, on the plain, a stone cross and two gibbets of secondary importance, which seemed to have sprung up as shoots around the central gallows; above all this, in the sky, a perpetual flock of crows; that was Montfauçon.

At the end of the fifteenth century, the formidable gibbet which dated from 1328, was already very much dilapidated; the beams were wormeaten, the chains rusted, the pillars green with mould; the layers of hewn stone were all cracked at their joints, and grass was growing on that platform which no feet touched. The monument made a horrible profile against the sky; especially at night when there was a little moonlight on those white skulls, or when the breeze of evening brushed the chains and the skeletons, and swayed all these in the darkness. The presence of this gibbet sufficed to render gloomy all the surrounding places.

The mass of masonry which served as foundation to the odious edifice was hollow. A huge cellar had been constructed there, closed by an old iron grating, which was out of order, into which were cast not only the human remains, which were taken from the chains of Montfauçon, but also the bodies of all the unfortunates executed on the other permanent gibbets of Paris. To that deep charnel-house, where so many human remains and so many crimes have rotted in company, many great ones of this world, many innocent people, have contributed their bones, from Enguerrand de Marigni, the first victim, and a just man, to Admiral de Coligni, who was its last, and who was also a just man.

As for the mysterious disappearance of Quasimodo, this is all that we have been able to discover.

About eighteen months or two years after the events which terminate this story, when search was made in that cavern for the body of Olivier le Daim, who had been hanged two days previously, and to whom Charles VIII. had granted the favor of being buried in Saint Laurent, in better company, they found among all those hideous carcasses two skeletons, one of which held the other in its embrace. One of these skeletons, which was that of a woman, still had a few strips of a garment which had once been white, and around her neck was to be seen a string of adrézarach beads with a little silk bag ornamented with green glass, which was open and empty. These objects were of so little value that the executioner had probably not cared for them. The other, which held this one in a close embrace, was the skeleton of a man. It was noticed that his spinal column was crooked, his head seated on his shoulder blades, and that one leg was shorter than the other. Moreover, there was no fracture of the vertebrae at the nape of the neck, and it was evident that he had not been hanged. Hence, the man to whom it had belonged had come thither and had died there. When they tried to detach the skeleton which he held in his embrace, he fell to dust.

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Ludwig is such an insightful and intelligent man. The chapter he quotes was precisely what I was thinking when I first saw the image.

Now you know why I like the character of Quasimodo and why you all should have great respect for ludwigm.

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Happy Birthday Quasi!


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Quasimodo
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Time for Birthday Cake and Mojitos! :biggrin:
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Paracelsus wrote:108

In reality, he was born about 14XX.

I've found when he was found!

He was found 1467, but he was approximately four at the time.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AQuasimodo for more; long article, but it is worth to read.
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Happy birthday, and good luck on your lifelong journey to become Fullymodo.
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How old are you really? :lol:

Happy b-day! :smile:
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Paracelsus wrote:Now you know why I like the character of Quasimodo and why you all should have great respect for ludwigm.


I have always held ludwigm in highest esteem. What ever happened to that guy?
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Jersey Girl wrote:Happy Birthday Quasi!


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Thanks so much Jersey (and your little dog, too :lol: ).
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moksha wrote:Quasimodo
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Time for Birthday Cake and Mojitos! :biggrin:


Thanks, Penguin! A mojito sounds good right now. :wink:
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MeDotOrg wrote:Happy birthday, and good luck on your lifelong journey to become Fullymodo.


Thanks, MeDotOrg! I'm nearing perfection. Soon I will be a full Modo. I'm already a Complete Twit.
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