Captain Phoebus Captain Phoebus "Capitaine" Phœbus de Châteaupers is a fictional character and one of the main antagonists in Victor Hugo's 1831 novel, "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame". He is the Captain of the King Louis XI's Archers. His name comes from Phoebus, the Greek god of the sun (also called Apollo). In the original novel, Phoebus is an antagonist. Despite being of noble birth and very handsome, he is also vain, untrustworthy, and a womanizer. He saves Esmeralda from Quasimodo and she falls in love with him. Phoebus makes a convincing show of returning her affections, but merely wants a night of
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996 film) musical "The Who's Tommy", Broadway actor Paul Kandel was selected to voice Clopin. Alongside "Pocahontas" (1995), storyboard work on "The Hunchback of the Notre Dame" was among the first to be produced for an animated film on the new Disney Feature Animation building adjacent to the main Disney lot in Burbank, which was dedicated in 1995. However, as the Feature Animation building was occupied with "The Lion King" and "Pocahontas" at the time, more animators were hired from Canada and United Kingdom to join the production team for "Hunchback", and as the development phase furthered along, most of the entire