After the death of Quasimodo, Notre Dame Cathedral no longer had anyone to take care of the bells. It was hardly a high-paying job and thus there were few interested candidates.
In fact, only one man showed up to fill the position, and he had an odd method of doing his work - rather than pull the ropes, he would run at full speed straight into the giant metal instruments, the impact of his blow causing it to sound. Since there were no other applicants, the man was accepted. On his first day on the job, however, he was so excited that during the noontime sounding, he completely mis-timed one of his runs, missed his target, and was carried by his momentum off the edge of the cathedral and died on the ground far below.
"What was his name?" asked one of the investigating officers later on.
"I'm not sure," answered the attendant friar, who had not asked the man his name, "but his face rings a bell."
Later that same day, another man showed up, looking remarkably similar to the first man. In fact, he pointed out, the first man had been his sibling. Wanting to 'carry on the family tradition,' he also was applying for the position his brother had briefly held. Again, as there were no other applicants, he was accepted.
He, unlike his brother, had a far more traditional method of sounding the bells, leaping from rope to rope to get them to sound. Unfortunately, he was not the most agile of men and so misjudged the distance of a jump and missed the rope, plunging down to his death.
"And what was HIS name?" asked the same investigating officer a few hours later.
"Still not sure," the attendant friar replied thoughtfully, "but he's a dead ringer for his brother."