Before losing his parents to a plague, Claude Frollo had been cloistered in the University of Paris and grew up on missals. Moreover, Claude was a solemn, pious man who ardently studied philosophy, medicine, law, and theology, devoted to a puritanical interpretation of God as wrathful and unforgiving of sin. Now 36 years old, the archdeacon rose through the ranks of Notre-Dame but grew increasingly isolated. Though a compassionate, fatherly figure, he suffered from lust and unfulfilled desire.