The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Book 7, Chapter 1 summary
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In Chapter 1, Phœbus invites La Esmeralda into his fiancée’s home, where the young women respond to her beauty with jealousy and insults. When her goat spells the captain’s name with wooden letters, her attachment becomes visible, Fleur-de-Lys faints, and Phœbus follows the departing dancer rather than his fiancée.
What happens
- At the Gondelaurier house, Phœbus responds coldly to Fleur-de-Lys while her mother encourages their approaching marriage.
- The young women notice a dancer outside and a priest watching her from Notre-Dame; Phœbus calls the dancer upstairs.
- La Esmeralda recognizes Phœbus warmly, while the jealous women mock her clothing and question her respectability.
- Djali arrives, and Bérangère draws him aside with cake before emptying the letter blocks from his pouch.
- The goat spells Phœbus, exposing La Esmeralda’s secret and making Fleur-de-Lys collapse.
- Dame Aloïse orders La Esmeralda away, and Phœbus follows the dancer after briefly hesitating between two doors.
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