Clopin Trouillefou 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 King of Truands. He prepares to execute Gringoire for trespassing, until th...
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Clopin Trouillefou 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 King of Truands. He prepares to execute Gringoire for trespassing, until the beautiful Esmeralda agrees to marry him in order to save him.
Near the end of the novel, Clopin receives news of Esmeralda's upcoming execution for the framed murder of Captain Phoebus. In order to rescue her, he rounds all of the Truands to attack Notre Dame Cathedral where Esmeralda is protected by Quasimodo. In response to the assault, Quasimodo retaliates with stones, timber, and molten lead. Finally, the author notes that Clopin dies courageously during the attack.
Clopin is also present in Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, in which...
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