All 50 Uses of

Monsieur

in

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

It was neither an assault by the Picards nor the Burgundians, nor a hunt led along in procession, nor a revolt of scholars in the town of Laas, nor an entry of "our much dread lord, monsieur the king," nor even a pretty hanging of male and female thieves by the courts of Paris.†
Chpt 1.1.1

Before founding a mass for Monsieur Saint John, the king should have inquired whether Monsieur Saint John likes Latin droned out in a Provencal accent.†
Chpt 1.1.1

Before founding a mass for Monsieur Saint John, the king should have inquired whether Monsieur Saint John likes Latin droned out in a Provencal accent.†
Chpt 1.1.1

Good day, monsieur le recteur!†
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Holà hé! good day, monsieur le recteur Thibaut!†
Chpt 1.1.1

You are going to seek a lodging in the Rue Thibautodé, are you not, monsieur le recteur, gamester on the side of the devil?†
Chpt 1.1.1

"Messieurs the bourgeois," said he, "and mesdemoiselles the ~bourgeoises~, we shall have the honor of declaiming and representing, before his eminence, monsieur the cardinal, a very beautiful morality which has for its title, 'The Good Judgment of Madame the Virgin Mary.'†
Chpt 1.1.1

"Messieurs the bourgeois," said he, "and mesdemoiselles the ~bourgeoises~, we shall have the honor of declaiming and representing, before his eminence, monsieur the cardinal, a very beautiful morality which has for its title, 'The Good Judgment of Madame the Virgin Mary.'†
Chpt 1.1.1

His eminence is, at this moment, escorting the very honorable embassy of the Duke of Austria; which is detained, at present, listening to the harangue of monsieur the rector of the university, at the gate Baudets.†
Chpt 1.1.1

…and the huge red beard, each of which covered one-half of his face,—had it not been for the roll of gilded cardboard, spangled, and all bristling with strips of tinsel, which he held in his hand, and in which the eyes of the initiated easily recognized thunderbolts,—had not his feet been flesh-colored, and banded with ribbons in Greek fashion, he might have borne comparison, so far as the severity of his mien was concerned, with a Breton archer from the guard of Monsieur de Berry.†
Chpt 1.1.1

Satisfy the populace; I undertake to appease the bailiff, who will appease monsieur the cardinal.†
Chpt 1.1.2

"Then it is not the same one," said Gisquette, "that was given two years ago, on the day of the entrance of monsieur the legate, and where three handsome maids played the parts—"†
Chpt 1.1.2

Here the young gossips, growing warm at the memory of the entrance of monsieur the legate, both began to talk at once.†
Chpt 1.1.2

"Monsieur," said the young girl, "are they going to continue?"†
Chpt 1.1.2

It is true that the mystery was to last from noon until four o'clock, in accordance with the orders of monsieur the provost, and that it was necessary to say something.†
Chpt 1.1.2

All at once, in the very middle of a quarrel between Mademoiselle Merchandise and Madame Nobility, at the moment when Monsieur Labor was giving utterance to this wonderful line,— In forest ne'er was seen a more triumphant beast; the door of the reserved gallery which had hitherto remained so inopportunely closed, opened still more inopportunely; and the ringing voice of the usher announced abruptly, "His eminence, Monseigneur the Cardinal de Bourbon."†
Chpt 1.1.2

MONSIEUR THE CARDINAL.†
Chpt 1.1.3

It is not that Pierre Gringoire either feared or disdained monsieur the cardinal.†
Chpt 1.1.3

…it certainly was their spirit which animated Father du Breul, when he wrote, in the sixteenth, these naively sublime words, worthy of all centuries: "I am a Parisian by nation, and a Parrhisian in language, for ~parrhisia~ in Greek signifies liberty of speech; of which I have made use even towards messeigneurs the cardinals, uncle and brother to Monsieur the Prince de Conty, always with respect to their greatness, and without offending any one of their suite, which is much to say."†
Chpt 1.1.3

"The much honored embassy of Monsieur the Duke of Austria," brought the cardinal none of these cares, but it troubled him in another direction.†
Chpt 1.1.3

So he turned toward the door, and with the best grace in the world (so well had he trained himself to it), when the usher announced, in a sonorous voice, "Messieurs the Envoys of Monsieur the Duke of Austria."†
Chpt 1.1.3

So he turned toward the door, and with the best grace in the world (so well had he trained himself to it), when the usher announced, in a sonorous voice, "Messieurs the Envoys of Monsieur the Duke of Austria."†
Chpt 1.1.3

Monsieur the Archduke has more than once sought his ~gant~* in my hose.†
Chpt 1.1.4

This hosier was an equal, who had just held his own before monsieur the cardinal.†
Chpt 1.1.4

He bent towards his neighbor, the Abbé of Saint Geneviéve, and said to him in a low tone,—"Fine ambassadors monsieur the archduke sends here, to announce to us Madame Marguerite!"†
Chpt 1.1.4

"Monsieur," he said, turning towards one of his neighbors, a fine, big man, with a patient face, "suppose we begin again."†
Chpt 1.1.4

"Monsieur Bailiff of the Courts," said he to a tall, black man, placed a few paces from him, "are those knaves in a holy-water vessel, that they make such a hellish noise?"†
Chpt 1.1.4

Jupiter, whose thunder could be heard rumbling in the dressing-room, supported her claim, and Venus was on the point of carrying it off,—that is to say, without allegory, of marrying monsieur the dauphin, when a young child clad in white damask, and holding in her hand a daisy (a transparent personification of Mademoiselle Marguerite of Flanders) came to contest it with Venus.†
Chpt 1.1.4

"Messieurs the bourgeois and squires of Paris, I don't know, cross of God! what we are doing here.†
Chpt 1.1.4

What say you, Messieurs les bourgeois?†
Chpt 1.1.4

"Monsieur," said Gringoire, "I thank you!"†
Chpt 1.1.5

"Monsieur," replied the big man with a yawn, "for what?"†
Chpt 1.1.5

"Monsieur, you are the only representive of the muses here," said Gringoire.†
Chpt 1.1.5

This is the fragment of conversation which he caught,— "You know, Master Cheneteau, the Hôtel de Navarre, which belonged to Monsieur de Nemours?"†
Chpt 1.1.6

After the brilliant failure of his first theatrical venture, he dared not return to the lodging which he occupied in the Rue Grenier-sur-l'Eau, opposite to the Port-au-Foin, having depended upon receiving from monsieur the provost for his epithalamium, the wherewithal to pay Master Guillaume Doulx-Sire, farmer of the taxes on cloven-footed animals in Paris, the rent which he owed him, that is to say, twelve sols parisian; twelve times the value of all that he possessed in the world,…†
Chpt 1.2.1

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.†
Chpt 1.2.1

Then breaking silence first, she said to him, making her sweet voice still sweeter than usual,— "What is your name, monsieur le gendarme?"†
Chpt 1.2.4

I am a vagabond, a thief, a sharper, a man of the knife, anything you please; and I am all that already, monsieur, King of Thunes, for I am a philosopher; ~et omnia in philosophia, omnes in philosopho continentur~,—all things are contained in philosophy, all men in the philosopher, as you know.†
Chpt 1.2.6

At length Monsieur Clopin calmed down.†
Chpt 1.2.6

"To think that Monsieur of Reims sent this enormity to Monsieur of Paris," added la Gaultière, clasping her hands.†
Chpt 1.4.1

"To think that Monsieur of Reims sent this enormity to Monsieur of Paris," added la Gaultière, clasping her hands.†
Chpt 1.4.1

"Monsieur le protonotare," asked Gauchère, "what do you prognosticate of this pretended foundling?"†
Chpt 1.4.1

When the first surprise was over, Jehanne de la Tarme bent down to the ear of la Gaultière,— "I told you so, sister,—that young clerk, Monsieur Claude Frollo, is a sorcerer."†
Chpt 1.4.1

He was a priest, austere, grave, morose; one charged with souls; monsieur the archdeacon of Josas, the bishop's second acolyte, having charge of the two deaneries of Montlhéry, and Châteaufort, and one hundred and seventy-four country curacies.†
Chpt 1.4.5

Archdeacon Claude had the credit also of having fathomed the mystery of the colossus of Saint Christopher, and of that lofty, enigmatical statue which then stood at the entrance of the vestibule, and which the people, in derision, called "Monsieur Legris."†
Chpt 1.4.5

More than once the laundress of the Terrain charged "with washing the chapter" had observed, not without affright, the marks of nails and clenched fingers on the surplice of monsieur the archdeacon of Josas.†
Chpt 1.4.5

"God help me, messieurs!" said the archdeacon, showing them in; "I was not expecting distinguished visitors at such an hour."†
Chpt 1.5.1

In truth, Monsieur le Docteur Coictier, I felt great joy on learning of the bishopric given your nephew, my reverend seigneur Pierre Verse.†
Chpt 1.5.1

Yes, monsieur Archdeacon; it is a grace and mercy of God.†
Chpt 1.5.1

Do you know that you made a great figure on Christmas Day at the bead of your company of the chamber of accounts, Monsieur President?†
Chpt 1.5.1

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(Monsieur)
French equivalent to the English Mr.

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