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
Esmeralda (1915 film) Esmeralda (1915 film) Esmeralda (1915) is a silent film starring Mary Pickford, directed by James Kirkwood, and produced by Adolph Zukor and stage impresario Daniel Frohman. As with the previous Pickford vehicles "Caprice, Mistress Nell" and "The Dawn of a Tomorrow", "Esmeralda" is based on a short story and stage play "Esmeralda" written by Frances Hodgson Burnett and William Gillette and produced in the 1880s. The play was acted by Annie Russell and later Viola Allen both teenagers at the time, who later became well known adult theater actresses. " "Esmeralda" is a new kind of Mary Pickford picture. The