As Quasimodo kidnaps Esmerelda, soldiers arrest him, and their captain, Phoebus de Chaleauper, takes Esmerelda to an inn where he hopes to seduce her. When Quasimodo questions the order, Claude states that "we're brothers, your face and my soul," explaining that his heart is ugly with the sin of lust. Quasimodo's exaltation is abruptly ended, however, when Claude orders him home and, once there, insists that Quasimodo abduct Esmerelda, with whom he is infatuated. Mistaking their mockery for real friendship, Quasimodo enjoys the proceedings. Soon after, the Court of Miracles, a group of the city's beggars and thieves, crown Quasimodo the King of Fools, the ugliest man in Paris, and parade him through the cobblestone streets. Alchemist Claude Frollo, who resides in the nearby Notre Dame cathedral, orders his hunchbacked servant and bell ringer, Quasimodo, to disperse the raucous crowd by destroying their pagan altar. In mid-fifteenth-century Paris, impoverished poet Pierre Gringoire watches a crowd of hecklers ridicule his play and then leave, without paying, to attend the Feast of Fools, where gypsy Esmerelda is performing an enticing dance.
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