Vulgar words in Notre-Dame De Paris (Page 1)

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ass x 3
bastard x 6
blockhead x 1
buffoon x 3
damn x 1
            
hussy x 3
            

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"Jupiter, Madame the Virgin, buffoons of the devil!

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To the house at the head of the bridge there had been affixed three small banners, representing the king, the dauphin, and Marguerite of Flanders, and six little pennons on which were portrayed the Duke of Austria, the Cardinal de Bourbon, M. de Beaujeu, and Madame Jeanne de France, and Monsieur the Bastard of Bourbon, and I know not whom else; all being illuminated with torches.

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Guillaume Rousseau, Emperor of the Empire of Galilee, marched majestically in his robe of purple, spotted with wine, preceded by buffoons wrestling and executing military dances; surrounded by his macebearers, his pickpockets and clerks of the chamber of accounts.

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who has cut, in the very middle of the central portal, that new and bastard arch?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,066   ~   ~   ~

There is a bacchanalian monk, with ass's ears and glass in hand, laughing in the face of a whole community, as on the lavatory of the Abbey of Bocherville.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,260   ~   ~   ~

with Monsieur the Bastard of Bourbon.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,341   ~   ~   ~

Barbedienne the blockhead!

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I have been told that by birth he is the bastard of an archdeacon and a devil.

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The gaze was not the one which Gringoire feared, ashamed as he was of having been caught by a grave and learned person in the costume of a buffoon.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,536   ~   ~   ~

So, when you addressed me, I was as foolish as an ass before a turnspit.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,855   ~   ~   ~

"What an annoying and vexatious hussy," said an aged judge, "to get herself put to the question when one has not supped!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,994   ~   ~   ~

"Eheu!" sighed the broken-hearted Gringoire, " bassa latinitas -bastard latin!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 6,455   ~   ~   ~

I will writhe on the earth, I will break the stones with my forehead, and I will damn myself, and I will curse you, Lord, if you keep my child from me!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 7,915   ~   ~   ~

Rot not like an unlettered ass, quasi asinus illitteratus , on the straw seats of the school.

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At night, when the remainder of the beggar horde slept, when there was no longer a window lighted in the dingy façades of the Place, when not a cry was any longer to be heard proceeding from those innumerable families, those ant-hills of thieves, of wenches, and stolen or bastard children, the merry tower was still recognizable by the noise which it made, by the scarlet light which, flashing simultaneously from the air-holes, the windows, the fissures in the cracked walls, escaped, so to speak, from its every pore.

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the hair which is not on the heads of your hussies one finds in your omelettes.

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May the devil confound you!-A fine hostelry of Beelzebub, where the hussies comb their heads with the forks!

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