Quasimodo , the Pope of Fools
On the morning of January 6,1842, the people of Paris were awakened by the deafening peals of all the church bells in the city . Not only was it a religious holiday m but it was also the Festival of Fools , and Parisians celebrated it by going to plays , lighting bonfires , or electing a Pope of Fools and parading him through the streets .
A noisy crowd started gathering outside the Palace of Justice before dawn , eager to get good swats for the play to be performed there at noon , when church officials and important guests would arrive . While they waited , the crowd of poor townspeople , rowdy students , and ragged beggars climbed the tall pillars , broke windows , and shouted to the actors and to Pierre Gringoire , the play's young author , for the show to begin .
Fearful that the shouts would lead to a riot , Pierre began the play . But the officials soon began arriving , and an usher in the gallery announced each one by name . These announcement and the spectators' noisy laughter and discussion of each arrival interrupted the play frequently .
These interruptions frustrated the young playwright , but they were nothing compared to the horror he felt when still another interruption came from a visitor from Belgium . The man suddenly rose in the gallery and called down, " People of Paris , I've been waiting for those people on stage to move , to act , to fight , but all these fools do is call each other names . I had hoped to see a Pope of Fools elected . Back home , we have all the candidates stick their head through a hole and makes the ugliest face is elected Pope of Fools . At least , that's amusing . This play is certainly not !
The crowd cheered . " A Pope ! Let's elect our Pope of Fools !"
A student knocked a hole in a small , round chapel window , and soon men were pushing to take their turn making faces . There were angry faces , silly faced , animal faces , grotesque faces . There were opened mouths and closed ones ,twisted noses and flat ones , hairy foreheads and bald ones . Each new face sent peals of laughter through the crowd .
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