It was, then, not without surprise and alarm, that at the very moment when Quasimodo was passing the Pillar House, in that semi−intoxicated state, a man was seen to dart from the crowd, and to tear from his hands, with a gesture of anger, his crosier of gilded wood, the emblem of his mock popeship.
Ce ne fut donc pas sans surprise et sans effroi que l’on vit tout à coup, au moment où Quasimodo, dans cette demi-ivresse, passait triomphalement devant la Maison-aux-Piliers, un homme s’élancer de la foule et lui arracher des mains, avec un geste de colère, sa crosse de bois doré, insigne de sa folle papauté.