Quasimodo Timeline and Summary

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Quasimodo Timeline and Summary

  • Quasimodo is born around 1462, making him about twenty years old when the novel takes place.
  • When he is three or four, Quasimodo is left in place of Paquette la Chantefleurie's baby daughter. He is sent as a foundling to Notre-Dame where Claude Frollo adopts him.
  • Quasimodo becomes the bell-ringer of Notre-Dame.
  • At the Festival of Fools in 1482, Quasimodo is crowned the Pope of Fools.
  • That night, at Frollo's bidding, Quasimodo attempts to kidnap Esmeralda and is arrested for it.
  • Quasimodo goes to trial and is sentenced to two hours on the pillory.
  • After enduring flogging and humiliation, Esmeralda steps out from the crowd to give Quasimodo some water when he begs for it.
  • When Esmeralda is doing penance in front of Notre-Dame before her execution, Quasimodo rescues her and claims sanctuary in the cathedral.
  • Quasimodo takes care of Esmeralda, but when Frollo tries to rape her, Quasimodo cannot disobey his master.
  • When the Tramps attack Notre-Dame, Quasimodo mistakes their intentions and fights back, killing Jehan du Moulin in the process.
  • After the attack, Quasimodo finds Esmeralda's cell empty.
  • Quasimodo sees Frollo staring and laughing at the Place de Grève, where Esmeralda is hanged, and he hurls Frollo off the tower.
  • Quasimodo disappears, but a severely deformed skeleton is found clutching another female skeleton at Montfaucon. When moved, it falls to dust.