# Master Florian Barbedienne — Notre-Dame de Paris character guide

> Master Florian Barbedienne in Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Florian Barbedienne, Master Florian, Barbedienne the blockhead

**First appearance:** 0031-i-an-impartial-glance-at-the-ancient-magistracy

## Who they are

A deaf and incompetent judge in the Châtelet court.

## In the story

### [I: An Impartial Glance at the Ancient Magistracy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/notre_dame_de_paris_se/chapters/i-an-impartial-glance-at-the-ancient-magistracy)

Deaf auditor of the Châtelet who presides over Quasimodo's trial, concealing his deafness and inadvertently increasing Quasimodo's sentence.

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