(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 ^_^)