RKS French Literature: Quasimodo Generally Hated (Victor Hugo)

We have already shown that Quasimodo was generally hated – for more than one good reason, it is true. There was hardly a spectator among the crowd but either had or thought he had some cause or complaint against the malevolent hunchback of Notre-Dame. The joy at seeing him appear thus in the pillory had been universal; and the harsh punishment he had just undergone, and the piteous plight in which it had left him, far from softening the hearts of the populace, had but rendered their hatred more malicious, by aiming it with the sting of mirth.

Accordingly, “public vengeance” as the legal jargon still styles it once satisfied, a thousand private spites now had their turn.

Victor Hugo, “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame”