The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Ch. 3 Summary

Summary

Gringoire had wanted the praise of the dauphin heard by the finest ear in the hall. Instead every head turns. Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon, Archbishop and Count of Lyon, kin to Louis XI and to Charles the Bold, enters in a scarlet robe, a courtier who has kept his balance between those two powers. He likes good wine and pretty girls, and the women are with him. Bishops and abbots fill the platform. On this Feast of Fools the students swear at the cassocks, and Jehan Frollo sings straight at the scarlet.

What troubles the cardinal is the Flemish embassy he must welcome in public for the king. Forty-eight envoys of Maximilian of Austria enter two by two, stiff in velvet, led by the Abbot of Saint-Bertin and Jacques de Goy. The usher mangles their titles, and the hall hides its laughter. One face is different. Guillaume Rym, counsellor of Ghent, looks as sharp as a fox, and the cardinal takes three steps to bow to him. Almost no one knows that this slight man plots in secret with Louis XI.

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Why This Matters

A Crowd That Makes a Monster

Stay with the hall, the pillory, and the square that decides a face. Gringoire had wanted the praise of the dauphin heard by the finest ear in the hall.

Notice the joke the square has already agreed on, then who has to wear it.

Coming Up in Chapter 4

While Rym and the cardinal are still exchanging low bows, a broad-shouldered man in a leather jerkin tries to enter beside them, and the usher bars the way.

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Chapter 03

Monsieur the Cardinal

Poor Gringoire! the din of all the great double petards of the Saint-Jean, the discharge of twenty arquebuses on supports, the detonation of that famous serpentine of the Tower of Billy, which, during the siege of Paris, on Sunday, the twenty-sixth of September, 1465, killed seven Burgundians at one blow, the explosion of all the powder stored at the gate of the Temple, would have rent his ears less rudely at that solemn and dramatic moment, than these few words, which fell from the lips of the usher, “His eminence, Monseigneur the Cardinal de Bourbon.” It is not that Pierre…

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Write six lines on Monsieur the Cardinal: who looked, who was looked at, and what you would have refused. Keep it to this chapter.

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•The working skill is A Crowd That Makes a Monster.
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•Name a cost, not the film.

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