Claude Frollo Timeline and Summary

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• Frollo is born to a wealthy bourgeois family who own a good chunk of Paris. His parents decide to make a churchman out of him, so he goes to school to study Latin and other scholarly things.
• When Frollo is nineteen, both of his parents die in a plague outbreak. He decides to care for his infant brother, Jehan.
• Around this time, Frollo also adopts the foundling Quasimodo.
• Around 1481, Frollo receives a personal visit from the King of France, Louis XI.
• Frollo is about thirty-six when the novel takes place. One day, he sees Esmeralda dancing and goes nuts over her.
• During the night of the Festival of Fools, Frollo attempts to use Quasimodo to kidnap Esmeralda. It doesn't work out, so he goes back to the drawing board.
• Plan B is to have Esmeralda arrested for witchcraft by Jacques Charmolue, the King's Proctor. It's at this time that Jehan witnesses Frollo write "ANÁΓKH" on the wall of his cell.
• By chance, Frollo overhears Phœbus telling Jehan that he made plans to meet Esmeralda that night. Frollo follows the captain and gives him money to let him spy on the encounter.
• While Phœbus is in the process of seducing Esmeralda, Frollo jumps out of the closet and stabs him.
• Frollo goes to visit Esmeralda in prison after she has been sentenced to death. He declares his love for her and asks her to come away with him, but she refuses.
• After seeing Esmeralda's penance in front of Notre-Dame, Frollo runs off in a high moral fever. When he sees Esmeralda in the cathedral later, he thinks that it is her ghost.
• After learning that Esmeralda claimed sanctuary in the cathedral, he goes to her cell one night and tries to rape her. Quasimodo stops him but backs off once he realizes that it is his master.
• Frollo coerces Gringoire into arranging the Tramps to attack Notre-Dame. During the siege, they get Esmeralda from her cell and take her away.
• Frollo brings Esmeralda to the Place de Grève and asks her again to choose between him and death. She goes for death. He hands her to the Sack Woman and runs off.
• From the towers of Notre-Dame, Frollo watches Esmeralda hang. Unfortunately for him, Quasimodo is watching him watch Esmeralda hang, and the hunchback throws him off of the tower.