Chapter 17
Claude Frollo
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 nobility. 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…
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Critical Thinking Exercise
Practise Desire That Turns into Possession
Write six lines on Claude Frollo: who looked, who was looked at, and what you would have refused. Keep it to this chapter.
Consider:
- •The working skill is Desire That Turns into Possession.
- •Use only beats from this chapter.
- •Name a cost, not the film.
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