Claude Frollo
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Claude Frollo is a fictional Catholic clergyman and the main antagonist of Victor Hugo's 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. He is also an alchemist, Renaissance humanist, and intellectual. In his
Claude Frollo holding infant Quasimodo on the steps of Notre Dame in 1467. Illustration by Luc-Olivier Merson, 1889.
Esmeralda, born Agnès, is a fictional character in Victor Hugo's 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. She is a French Roma girl. She constantly attracts men with her seductive dances, and is rarely
Claude Frollo
…After a lifetime of concealment and suppression, Frollo's latent narcissism finally erupt when he first sees dancing the 16-year-old Roma (Gypsy) girl Esmeralda, who eventually proves to be his undoing. He first considers her to be a temptation sent by the Devil to corrupt him and, instead of taking personal…
Esmeralda gives water to Quasimodo tied to the pillory. A Tear for a Drop of Water by Luc-Olivier Merson (1903).
Holding her daughter Agnès in her arms, Paquette visits the Gypsies to have her fortune told. Drawing by Luc-Olivier Merson (c. 1889).
Esmeralda saves Pierre Gringoire's life by choosing him as her husband. Drawing by Louis Boulanger (c. 1831).
Claude Frollo stabs Captain Phoebus. Oil painting by Auguste Couder (1833).