Clopin Trouillefou also appeared in the straight-to-video sequel, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame II", as the host for the Festival of Love (Le Jour D'Amour, "the day of love"), although he is no longer the narrator and plays a much smaller role. Clopin Trouillefou Clopin Trouillefou (, literally "Lame Terror-Mad") is a fictional character first created in the 1831 novel "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" by French author Victor Hugo, and subsequently adapted. In the story, Clopin disrupts Pierre Gringoire's play, begging the audience for money. Later that night, Gringoire runs into him once again in the Court of Miracles, where Clopin is
Captain Phoebus Esmeralda, being the only one present, is presumed to be the killer. Phoebus, however, is not dead and soon recovers from his injury. But this does not stop Esmeralda from being tried and sentenced to death for his attempted murder as well as witchcraft. Phoebus could have proven her innocence, but he remained silent. In the end of the novel, he marries Fleur-de-Lys, and watches Esmeralda's execution with apparently little or no remorse. Whilst being one of the few characters to survive in the novel, Hugo implies that his marriage will not be a romantic or happy one. Among the