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In fact, Claude Frollo was no common person.

He belonged to one of those middle-class families which were called indifferently,

in the impertinent language of the last century, the high bourgeoise or the petty

This family had inherited from the brothers Paclet the fief of Tirechappe, which was

dependent upon the Bishop of Paris, and whose twenty-one houses had been in the

thirteenth century the object of so many suits before the official.

As possessor of this fief, Claude Frollo was one of the twenty-seven seigneurs

keeping claim to a manor in fee in Paris and its suburbs; and for a long time, his

quality, between the Hotel de Tancarville, belonging to Master Francois Le Rez, and

the college of Tours, in the records deposited at Saint Martin des Champs.

Claude Frollo had been destined from infancy, by his parents, to the

He had been taught to read in Latin; he had been trained to keep his eyes on the ground

While still a child, his father had cloistered him in the college of Torchi in

the University. There it was that he had grown up, on the

Moreover, he was a sad, grave, serious child, who studied ardently, and learned

quickly; he never uttered a loud cry in recreation hour, mixed but little in the

bacchanals of the Rue du Fouarre, did not

know what it was to dare alapas et capillos laniare, and had cut no figure in that

revolt of 1463, which the annalists register gravely, under the title of "The

He seldom rallied the poor students of Montaigu on the cappettes from which they

derived their name, or the bursars of the college of Dormans on their shaved tonsure,

and their surtout parti-colored of bluish-

green, blue, and violet cloth, azurini coloris et bruni, as says the charter of

On the other hand, he was assiduous at the great and the small schools of the Rue

The first pupil whom the Abbe de Saint Pierre de Val, at the moment of beginning

his reading on canon law, always perceived, glued to a pillar of the school Saint-

Claude Frollo, armed with his horn ink- bottle, biting his pen, scribbling on his

threadbare knee, and, in winter, blowing on his fingers.

The first auditor whom Messire Miles d'Isliers, doctor in decretals, saw arrive

every Monday morning, all breathless, at the opening of the gates of the school of

Thus, at sixteen years of age, the young clerk might have held his own, in mystical

theology, against a father of the church; in canonical theology, against a father of

the councils; in scholastic theology, against a doctor of Sorbonne.

Theology conquered, he had plunged into decretals.

From the "Master of Sentences," he had passed to the "Capitularies of

Charlemagne;" and he had devoured in succession, in his appetite for science,

Theodore, Bishop of Hispalus; those of Bouchard, Bishop of Worms; those of Yves,

Bishop of Chartres; next the decretal of Gratian, which succeeded the capitularies

Gregory IX.; then the Epistle of Superspecula, of Honorius III.

He rendered clear and familiar to himself that vast and tumultuous period of civil

law and canon law in conflict and at strife with each other, in the chaos of the Middle

Ages,--a period which Bishop Theodore opens

in 618, and which Pope Gregory closes in 1227.

Decretals digested, he flung himself upon medicine, on the liberal arts.

He studied the science of herbs, the science of unguents; he became an expert in

fevers and in contusions, in sprains and abcesses.

Jacques d' Espars would have received him as a physician; Richard Hellain, as a

surgeon. He also passed through all the degrees of

He studied the languages, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, a triple sanctuary then very little

frequented. His was a veritable fever for acquiring and

At the age of eighteen, he had made his way through the four faculties; it seemed to

the young man that life had but one sole object: learning.

It was towards this epoch, that the excessive heat of the summer of 1466 caused

that grand outburst of the plague which carried off more than forty thousand souls

in the vicomty of Paris, and among others,

as Jean de Troyes states, "Master Arnoul, astrologer to the king, who was a very fine

The rumor spread in the University that the Rue Tirechappe was especially devastated by

the malady. It was there that Claude's parents resided,

The young scholar rushed in great alarm to the paternal mansion.

When he entered it, he found that both father and mother had died on the preceding

A very young brother of his, who was in swaddling clothes, was still alive and

This was all that remained to Claude of his family; the young man took the child under

his arm and went off in a pensive mood. Up to that moment, he had lived only in

This catastrophe was a crisis in Claude's existence.

Orphaned, the eldest, head of the family at the age of nineteen, he felt himself rudely

recalled from the reveries of school to the realities of this world.

Then, moved with pity, he was seized with passion and devotion towards that child,

his brother; a sweet and strange thing was a human affection to him, who had hitherto

This affection developed to a singular point; in a soul so new, it was like a

Separated since infancy from his parents, whom he had hardly known; cloistered and

immured, as it were, in his books; eager above all things to study and to learn;

exclusively attentive up to that time, to

his intelligence which broadened in science, to his imagination, which expanded

in letters,--the poor scholar had not yet had time to feel the place of his heart.

This young brother, without mother or father, this little child which had fallen

abruptly from heaven into his arms, made a new man of him.

He perceived that there was something else in the world besides the speculations of