Clopin

Clopin Trouillefou
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame character
Created by	Victor Hugo
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Gender	Male
Nationality	Romani

Clopin
First appearance	The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
Created by	Michael Surrey
Voiced by	Paul Kandel

Clopin Trouillefou (pronounced: [klɔ.pɛ̃ tʁuj.fu], 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 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 the 1996 Disney film version of the same name, in which he is a more jovial and less sinister gypsy than in the novel. However, he is much darker, in clothing and humor, when Quasimodo and Captain Phoebus arrive in the Court of Miracles, suggesting his personality during the day to have been something of a façade. However, he shows to have a gentle nature at the end of the film when he picks a little girl up and entertains her with a puppet resembling Judge Claude Frollo. Clopin's ending pitch of the song "The Bells of Notre Dame" has garnered incredible acclaim for its high D-note singing. He is voiced by Paul Kandel.

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