Clopin Trouillefou 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 revealed not as a beggar, but as the King of Truands (the criminals and outcasts of Paris). He prepares to execute Gringoire for trespassing, until the beautiful Esmeralda agrees to marry him in order to save him. Near the end
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