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Ring the Bells: Quasimodo Discovered in British Archive?

By Theunis BatesAug 16th 2010 – 5:05PM
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LONDON (Aug. 16) -- Quasimodo is one of literature's great tragic heroes: kind and gentle, yet doomed by a hideous deformity. But a recent discovery by a British archivist hints that the bell-ringer from "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" wasn't merely a product of Victor Hugo's vivid imagination; he may have been inspired by...

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