LONDON (REUTERS).- A British archivist believes he has uncovered the real-life inspiration for French novelist Victor Hugo’s mysterious character Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. Adrian Glew, who works on the Tate collection’s archives in London, was studying the seven-volume handwritten autobiography of 19th century British sculptor Henry Sibson when he came across a reference to a Frenchman whose nickname was “le bossu,” or hunchback. Sibson had been employed in the 1820s to carve stone as part of the renovation of Notre Dame in Paris which had suffered damage during the French Revolution in the 1790s. But he fell out with one of his contractors and applied for another job at the government studios where he met a carver called Trajan. According to Sibson, Trajan was a “most worthy, fatherly and amiable man as ever existed — he was the carver