ESMERALDA PLOT

The beautiful gypsy girl Esmeralda marries the poet Pierre Gringoire, to save him from death in the
hands of the gypsy king. The groom is smitten with his new bride, but she makes it clear that the
marriage is strictly one of convenience.

Gringoire is not the only one infatuated with Esmeralda, the archdeacon of Notre Dame cathedral,
Claude Frollo, is dangerously obsessed with the girl and orders his deformed henchman,
Quasimodo, to abduct her. When Quasimodo attacks Esmeralda in the street, she is rescued by the
King's Archers, led by their handsome captain Phoebus de Chateaupers, who capture Quasimodo.

The beautiful gypsy girl, Esmeralda, under gypsy law, “marries” the poet, Pierre
Gringoire to save him from execution in the hands of the Gypsy King. However,
there is another who desires the gypsy girl – the corrupt Archdeacon Claude
Frollo, who is torn between his duty to God and his lustful obsession with
Esmeralda. When Frollo orders his deformed henchman, Quasimodo to capture
Esmeralda, she is rescued by the handsome Captain Phoebus de Châteaupers
and falls in love with him. Phoebus gives Esmeralda his fiancée’s scarf, but when
Fleur-de-Lys discovers this, she angrily calls off the engagement, leaving
Phoebus free to be with Esmeralda. However, the jealous Frollo attempts to
exact revenge by stabbing Phoebus, believing he has killed him, and frames
Esmeralda for the crime. Esmeralda is found guilty of murder and sentenced to
death by hanging. Frollo’s plot is thwarted when Phoebus arrives alive and well,
having survived the stabbing and recovered from his wound, and clears
Esmeralda’s name.