Les cloches [English translation]

[Gringoire]:

The bells no longer ring

The cathedral is silent

Unfortunate Quasimodo

Quasimodo, who is in love.

[Frollo]:

He has rung the bells

For the past three days

Sad Quasimodo

Crazy Quasimodo .

[Gringoire and Frollo]:

Because he is dying of love

[Quasimodo]:

I ring the bells

Because these loves are my lovers

I want them to shout from the rooftops,

I want them to drum and sing.

Whether it is hail, or thunder

Or rain or shine

I want them to resonate

In joy or in torment.

They sound when you are born

They sound when you die

They sound every day, every night, every hour

They sound when you pray

They sound when you cry

They sound for the people awaken early

For the feast of Palm Sunday

For Quasimodo

For Christmas Day and All Saints Day

For the Annunciation

For the Resurrection

For Valentine's Day and Good Friday

For celebrations

And processions

Of which the finest is that called the Corpus Christi

New Year's Day, Epiphany

Easter day, days of joy

Pentecost with tongues of fire

For confirmations

And communions

The Angelus, and they will tol t te world’s end

Ascension Day

The Feast of the Assumption

For all the hosannas and all the hallelujahs.

But those that I like best

Among all these women of iron

Are the three Marys

Who are my best friends

There’s little Marie

For children put into the ground

And there, the great Mary

For sailors who go to sea

But when I ring the big Mary

For lovers who are marrying

There’s no gaiety in my heart

I would rather die

To see them so happy

To see them so happy

Me, who no woman can even bear to look in my eyes.

To see them marry

To see them off

Into the stars under the vault of heaven

I ring all the bells:

Kyrie Eleison

Hosanna, Alleluia, Dies irae dies ilia

All these bells of doom

All these bells of happiness

All these bells that have never yet come for me.

I ring the bells

That are my lovers and friends

I want them to trumpet

Esmeralda is so alive

To tell the world that Quasimodo loves Esmeralda.