Who is Clopin Trouillefou?

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THE MAN BEHIND THE PUPPET

Well... WHY do I love Clopin so much? I have no idea. Probably for the same reasons that the sun shines or the stars twinkle...haha gas. Just kidding. ANYWAY I'll tell you who he is: 

Disney's Clopin
 
 (voiced by Paul Kandel) In the Disney film The Hunchback of Notre Dame , Clopin introduces the story, narrating an introduction as neither the protaganist or antagonist, but sort of in between...he has a Punch-ish feel to him with his puppet. He reappears in 3 other songs as the leader of the gypsies. I loved him in this movie because he gave a sort of life to Hugo's Clopin (if not a little off). He's hot, as cartoon characters go... 
 
Victor Hugo's Clopin
 
Quotes from Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame...
 
Pg. 36 "A tattered mendicant who, lost as he was among the crowd, could receive no contributions, and who, we may suppose, had not found sufficiant imdemnity in the pockets of him neibours, had bethought himself of roosting on some conspicuous perch from which to attract the attention and the alms of good people. Accordingly, during the first lines of the prologue, he had hoisted himself up by means of the pillars that supported the reserved gallery, to the cornice which ran along the bottom of the balustade;and there he had seated himself, soliciting the attention and the pity of the multitude by the display of his rags, and of a hideous sore that covered his right arm. He did not however, utter a word."
 
Pg 37 " ' I say,on my soul,' cried Joannes, 'it's Clopin Trouillefou. Hello! friend -so thy sore wasn't comfortable on thy leg, that thou'st changed it to thine arm? ' "
 
Pg 111-112 "This voice, though menacing in tone reminded him of another voice which that very morning had struch the first blow at his mystery, by droning out in the midst of the audience 'Charity, if you please!' He raised his eyes- it was indeed Clopin Trouillefou.
                    Clopin Trouillefou, arrayed in his regal ensigns, had not one rag more or less upon him. His sore on the arm had dissapeared. in his hand he held one of those whips with lashes of whitleather, which were, at that time used by the sergeants of the wand to drive back the crowd which were called boullayes. He had on his head a circular coif closed at the top; but it was difficult to distinguish whether it was a child's cushion or a king's crown, so similar are the two things."
 
 
( ^_^The Hunchback of Notre-Dame was written by Victor Hugo, and the cartoon version, The Huchback of Notre Dame belongs to Disney ^_^)

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