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Jehan FrolloA student who joins others in mocking tradesmen and jeering at university officials.First seen in chapter 1
GringoireA playwright who struggles to hold the festival crowd’s attention during his morality play.First seen in chapter 2
Clopin TrouillefouA beggar whom Jacques Coppenole greets warmly and protects from the cardinal’s order of removal.First seen in chapter 4
Jacques CoppenoleA hosier who wins the crowd’s approval and proposes choosing a pope through ugly faces.First seen in chapter 4
QuasimodoNotre-Dame’s deaf bell ringer wins the face-making contest and becomes Pope of Fools.First seen in chapter 5
La EsmeraldaHer announced presence draws the remaining spectators away from Gringoire’s play to the windows.First seen in chapter 6
Claude FrolloA priest who strips Quasimodo of his ceremonial finery and receives his obedience.First seen in chapter 9
DjaliThe young gypsy’s trained goat performs tricks that imitate officials and indicate the date and hour.First seen in chapter 9
PhœbusA captain who rescues the gypsy from attackers while his archers capture Quasimodo.First seen in chapter 10
Louis XIA visitor who conceals his identity while questioning Claude Frollo about health and astrology.First seen in chapter 22
PaquetteA grieving mother whom Mahiette recognizes in the recluse called Sister Gudule.First seen in chapter 26
Fleur-de-LysPhœbus’s fiancée receives little warmth from him as her mother encourages their approaching marriage.First seen in chapter 29

Chapter 1
Festival crowds fill the Palais de Justice to watch a play and choose a Pope of Fools.
Chapter 5
Quasimodo wins the face-making contest and is carried away as Pope of Fools.
Chapter 10
Phœbus rescues the gypsy from an attempted abduction, and his archers capture Quasimodo.
Chapter 12
La Esmeralda saves Gringoire from hanging by accepting him as her husband.
Chapter 17
Claude Frollo takes responsibility for his infant brother after the plague and adopts the child he names Quasimodo.
Chapter 22
Claude Frollo defends alchemy before a disguised visitor whom he recognizes as Louis XI.
Chapter 24
Quasimodo faces a deaf auditor and a provost who mistake his responses and order punishment.
Chapter 26
Mahiette recounts Paquette’s loss of her daughter and recognizes her in the grieving recluse.
Chapter 27
La Esmeralda gives water to Quasimodo after his public whipping, drawing applause from the crowd.
Chapter 29
Djali spells Phœbus’s name with wooden letters, exposing La Esmeralda’s attachment before his fiancée.
Chapter 36
Claude Frollo stabs Phœbus during his meeting with La Esmeralda, whom watchmen then accuse of the attack.
Chapter 38
Torture forces La Esmeralda to confess to witchcraft and murdering Phœbus.
Chapter 39
The judges sentence La Esmeralda and her goat to hanging.
Chapter 40
Claude Frollo admits his role in La Esmeralda’s persecution and offers escape together, but she refuses.
Chapter 42
Quasimodo seizes La Esmeralda from the executioners and carries her into sanctuary at Notre-Dame.
Chapter 45
Quasimodo explains that her kindness inspired his rescue and gives La Esmeralda a whistle to summon him.
Chapter 48
La Esmeralda summons Quasimodo when the priest attacks her, then drives the priest away with a knife.
Chapter 49
Claude tells Gringoire that Parliament orders La Esmeralda’s execution, and Gringoire proposes a rescue using her supporters.
Chapter 52
Quasimodo mistakes the armed rescuers for enemies and defends Notre-Dame, killing attackers including Jehan Frollo.
Chapter 55
Royal cavalry overwhelms the outcasts, but Quasimodo discovers La Esmeralda’s cell empty.
Chapter 56
La Esmeralda escapes with Gringoire and a stranger, who reveals himself as the priest and hands her to Gudule.
Chapter 57
Seeing La Esmeralda hanging and Claude Frollo laughing, Quasimodo pushes the priest from the tower.
Chapter 58
Quasimodo disappears, while Gringoire later achieves theatrical success and Phœbus marries.
Chapter 59
Searchers find a deformed man’s skeleton embracing a woman’s in the burial cellar beneath Montfaucon.
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