Lunchtime Links: Clues point to real-life hunchback who may have inspired creation of Quasimodo

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View full sizeAPAnthony Hopkins played Quasimodo in 1983.

From the Telegraph:

With his hunched back and deformed face, Quasimodo, the tragic hero of Victor Hugo's novel "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," has always been considered a mythical creation drawn from the depths of the author's imagination.

But clues suggesting that Quasimodo is based on a historical figure have been uncovered in the memoirs of Henry Sibson, a 19th-century British sculptor who was employed at the cathedral at around the time the book was written and who describes a hunched back stonemason also working there.

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