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Victor Hugo. (1936). (original publication date 1831). The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. New York: Dodd, Mead.
- When this sort of Cyclops appeared on the threshold of the chapel, motionless, squat, almost as broad as high, [the] populace instantly recognized him by his coat, half red and half purple, sprinkled with silver bells, and, more especially, by the perfection of his ugliness, and cried out with one voice: "It is Quasimodo the bell-ringer! It is Quasimodo the hunchback of Notre-Dame! Quasimodo the one-eyed! Quasimodo the bandy-legged! Hurrah! Hurrah!" the poor devil, it seems, had plenty of surnames to choose among.