bossu

Glew believes the memoirs imply Quasimodo is based on a real-life figure as they reference a carver named Trajan, who was employed by an unnamed scuptlor whose French nickname was le bossu, or "hunchback."

Notre Dame's 'Real' Hunchback Uncovered By U.K. Archivist 2010

"Le bossu" - maybe, but really only l'Ile de la Cité. in my opinion.

The best movies set in Paris. Ann Althouse 2005

Le célèbre satirique Pope était bossu et avait les jambes torses.

French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann

Un prince de la maison de Condé, branche collatérale de celle de Bourbon, était bossu et laid.

French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann

Such was the costume in which La Reveillére-Lepeaux exhibited himself to his astonished countrymen, and having the misfortune to be -- as we are told -- "petit, bossu, et puant," the exhibition obtained no great success.

The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 Various

"The bossu," repeated the wretched infant vacantly.

In the Quarter 1899

Helen remembered that kind-hearted Cecilia had often remonstrated for humanity's sake, and stopped the quizzing which used to go on in their private coteries, when the satirical elder sister would have it that _le petit bossu_ was in love with Louisa.

Tales and Novels — Volume 10 Maria Edgeworth 1808

Fortune had suddenly advanced him to uncounted thousands and a title, and no longer _le petit bossu_, Lord

Tales and Novels — Volume 10 Maria Edgeworth 1808

Vous seriez un excellent attornei general; vous pesez toutes les probabilit ` es; mais il paroit que vous avez une inclination secrette pour ce bossu.

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 Horace Walpole 1757

Adrian Glew, who works on the Tate collection's archives in London, was studying the seven-volume handwritten autobiography of 19th-century British sculptor Henry Sibson when he came across a reference to a Frenchman whose nickname was "le bossu," or hunchback.

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