# Notre-Dame de Paris — Character guide

> Key figures in Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo.

- [Pierre Gringoire](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/notre_dame_de_paris_se/characters/pierre_gringoire.md): Gringoire scrapes a living by his wits, trading philosophy for tambourine-beating and chair-biting when the crowd stops listening. His marriage to Esmeralda is a broken-crock bargain: she wed him only to save him from ha
- [Quasimodo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/notre_dame_de_paris_se/characters/quasimodo.md): Quasimodo is the object of the crowd's laughter and terror, hurling a mocker aside without a word, yet he is also the adopted son of the archdeacon who took him in as a foundling. His devotion to Claude Frollo is absolut
- [Dom Claude Frollo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/notre_dame_de_paris_se/characters/claude_frollo.md): Frollo is the cathedral's most learned man, a priest who raised his dissolute younger brother and adopted the abandoned Quasimodo out of pity. From his tower he fixes on Esmeralda alone in all of Paris, his body rigid as
- [La Esmeralda](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/notre_dame_de_paris_se/characters/la_esmeralda.md): Esmeralda earns her bread dancing in the Place du Parvis, protected by the Duke of Egypt and her whole tribe, and loved from afar by a captain, a poet, and a priest. She wears an amulet said to lead her to her lost paren
- [Captain Phoebus de Châteaupers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/notre_dame_de_paris_se/characters/phoebus_de_chateaupers.md): Phoebus moves easily between the fashionable parlor of Fleur-de-Lys, where he lies about a wound and a garrison posting, and the square where the gypsy dancer makes his heart race. His beauty and gallantry win him forgiv
- [Jehan Frollo du Moulin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/notre_dame_de_paris_se/characters/jehan_frollo.md): Orphaned as an infant, Jehan was raised by Claude with a mother's anxious devotion, and the archdeacon's whole future was once staked on the boy's happiness. That tenderness curdled into indulgence: the pretty child grew
- [Clopin Trouillefou](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/notre_dame_de_paris_se/characters/clopin_trouillefou.md): Clopin rules the underworld of beggars and outcasts who answer only to their own laws, and he treats the church itself as a rival sovereign to be negotiated with, not obeyed. When he raises his torch before Notre-Dame to
- [Tristan l'Hermite](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/notre_dame_de_paris_se/characters/tristan_lhermite.md): The king's grim provost and chief executioner.
- [Master Jacques Coppenole](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/notre_dame_de_paris_se/characters/jacques_coppenole.md): A blunt Flemish hosier and delegate who disrupts the papal play.
- [Master Jacques Charmolue](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/notre_dame_de_paris_se/characters/jacques_charmolue.md): The king's attorney in ecclesiastical court, a cruel inquisitor.
- [Fleur-de-Lys de Gondelaurier](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/notre_dame_de_paris_se/characters/fleur_de_lys_de_gondelaurier.md): Fleur-de-Lys moves in the gilded rooms of the Gondelaurier household, where tapestries and old titles are discussed while her betrothed twirls his moustache and thinks of taverns. Her beauty and rank cannot compete with 
- [Paquette la Chantefleurie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/notre_dame_de_paris_se/characters/paquette_la_chantefleurie.md): Paquette was a poor embroiderer's daughter whose beauty and ready laugh earned her a nickname and then a ruinous fall through a succession of lovers, each less noble than the last. Now a recluse in a stone cell, she surv
- [Damoiselle Mahiette](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/notre_dame_de_paris_se/characters/mahiette.md): A kind woman who tells the story of Paquette's lost child.
- [Demoiselle Oudarde Musnier](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/notre_dame_de_paris_se/characters/oudarde_musnier.md): A gossipy woman who accompanies Mahiette to the Rat Hole.
- [Master Olivier](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/notre_dame_de_paris_se/characters/master_olivier.md): King Louis XI's barber and confidant, a sly courtier.
- [Doctor Coictier](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/notre_dame_de_paris_se/characters/jacques_coictier.md): The king's physician, a pompous and greedy doctor.
- [Michel Giborne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/notre_dame_de_paris_se/characters/michel_giborne.md): An actor who plays Jupiter in Gringoire's play.
- [Sister Gudule](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/notre_dame_de_paris_se/characters/sister_gudule.md): The religious name of Paquette la Chantefleurie in her reclusion.
- [Master Florian Barbedienne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/notre_dame_de_paris_se/characters/florian_barbedienne.md): A deaf and incompetent judge in the Châtelet court.
- [Messire Robert d'Estouteville](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/notre_dame_de_paris_se/characters/robert_destouteville.md): The provost of Paris, a nobleman overseeing justice.
- [Guillaume Rym](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/notre_dame_de_paris_se/characters/guillaume_rym.md): A Flemish counselor and delegate accompanying Coppenole.
- [Djali](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/notre_dame_de_paris_se/characters/djali.md): Esmeralda's clever, trained pet goat who performs tricks.
- [Master Pierrat Torterue](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/notre_dame_de_paris_se/characters/pierrat_torterue.md): The official torturer of the Châtelet.
- [Madame Aloïse de Gondelaurier](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/notre_dame_de_paris_se/characters/aloise_de_gondelaurier.md): Fleur-de-Lys's mother, a noblewoman of high society.
- [Gossip Tourangeau](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/notre_dame_de_paris_se/characters/tourangeau.md): A mysterious visitor who questions Claude Frollo about alchemy.
- [Robin Poussepain](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/notre_dame_de_paris_se/characters/robin_poussepain.md): A mischievous student who mocks Quasimodo at the pillory.
- [Olivier le Mauvais](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/notre_dame_de_paris_se/characters/olivier_le_mauvais.md): A courtier and confidant of King Louis XI.
- [Goody Falourdel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/notre_dame_de_paris_se/characters/goody_falourdel.md): An old woman who rents a room to Phoebus and Esmeralda.
- [Joannes Frollo de Molendino](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/notre_dame_de_paris_se/characters/joannes_frollo.md): Another variant name for Jehan Frollo in Latin records.
- [Eustache Moubon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/notre_dame_de_paris_se/characters/eustache_moubon.md): An old man who testifies at the trial.

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