Complex sentence: Since Grenouille's mother didn't care about him at all, he didn't have a name.Since only baptized children were accepted into orphanages, an officer called La Fosse decides to let him be baptized, which happens at the Saint-Merri cloister.
Split into simpler sentences: Since Grenouille's mother didn't care about him at all, he didn't have a name, but since only baptized children were accepted into orphanages. An officer called La Fosse decides to let him be baptized, which happens at the Saint-Merri cloister.