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Jehan is Claude Frollo’s younger brother and a student at the University in Paris. Jehan is adopted by Frollo at a young age, after their parents die from the plague. Although Frollo provides the best possible education for Jehan, Jehan squanders his time at university and spends all his money drinking and visiting prostitutes. Jehan is notorious for his involvement in many brawls on campus and does not respect Frollo, despite the many sacrifices Frollo has made for him. Instead, Jehan believes his older brother is mad and foolish and only visits him when he wants money. Like Frollo, however, Jehan is prone to extreme emotions and is very impulsive. While Frollo represses this side of himself, Jehan gives in to all his emotions and sensual urges and does so with relish. He loves pleasure and wants to live a life of debauchery. This is demonstrated when Jehan finally decides to give up his respectable education for good and become a “truant.” Jehan’s extreme personality and impulsive nature are eventually his downfall when he joins the riot against Notre Dame and throws himself into the fighting. He is killed by Quasimodo, who defends the cathedral during this riot.
Jehan Frollo Quotes in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The The Hunchback of Notre Dame quotes below are all either spoken by Jehan Frollo or refer to Jehan Frollo. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Book 4, Chapter 2 Quotes
He realized there were other things in the world besides the speculations of the Sorbonne and the verses of Homerus, that man has need of affection, that without tenderness and love life was just a harsh and mechanical clockwork, in need of lubrication.
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Book 7, Chapter 4 Quotes
He, who wore his heart on his sleeve, who observed none of the world’s laws except the law of nature, who allowed his passions to escape through his inclinations, and in whom the reservoir of strong emotion was always dry, so many fresh drains did he dig for it each morning, he had no idea of how the sea of human passions rages and ferments and boils once it is refused all outlet, of how it accumulates and increases and flows over, of how it scours the heart and breaks out into inward sobs and dumb convulsions, until it has torn down its dykes and burst its bed. Jehan had always been deceived by Claude Frollo’s austere and icy exterior, that chill surface of precipitous and inaccessible virtue. That this seething, raging lava bubbled deep beneath the snowclad brow of Etna had never occurred to the cheerful student.
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Jehan Frollo Character Timeline in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The timeline below shows where the character Jehan Frollo appears in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Book 1, Chapter 1
...windowsill—and makes fun of his precarious position. The student being addressed, a young man named Jehan Frollo de Molendino, replies that he has been there since morning and that he heard...
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...staff go by in a dignified parade. The students turn and jeer at them and Jehan calls the rector an “old gambler.” The university bookseller complains to his neighbor in the...
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Book 1, Chapter 2
...worn off, the crowd begins to protest again and demands that the play start immediately. Jehan and his friend Robin Poussepain begin to chant from the windowsills and the crowd joins...
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...been written for the Flemish princess and will be even more beautiful. From the windowsill, Jehan calls again for the play to begin and the actors scramble onstage.
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...call out for alms. The beggar has a “large sore on his right arm.” When Jehan sees the beggar, he falls about laughing. Jehan cries that the beggar is a fake...
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Book 1, Chapter 3
...of the year when they can speak their minds without fear of torture or execution. Jehan verbally attacks the Cardinal. Jehan’s brother, Claude Frollo, is the archdeacon of Notre Dame, so...
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Book 1, Chapter 4
...men squabble in real life. Gringoire begins to chant for the play to continue but Jehan and the students shout him down.
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Book 1, Chapter 5
...a hunchback and the crowd quickly recognizes him as Quasimodo, the bell-ringer of Notre Dame. Jehan shouts that pregnant women should not look at him and several women quickly hide their...
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...and he snarls at Coppenole. Amused, Coppenole announces that Quasimodo is “the perfect pope” and Jehan begins to tease Quasimodo from his perch above the hall.
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Book 4, Chapter 2
...parents both die of plague. When Frollo visits their house, he finds his baby brother, Jehan, still alive but without anyone to care for him. Frollo takes charge of Jehan and...
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Through his time spent with Jehan, Frollo comes to realize that there is more to life than knowledge and that, without...
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...comes across the abandoned baby in the church. The poor, orphaned child reminds him of Jehan and he adopts the baby out of compassion. He names the baby Quasimodo after the...
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Book 4, Chapter 5
...has not abated and he is still dedicated to the education of his younger brother, Jehan, who has grown into a devilish and witty young man. Although Frollo hoped that Jehan...
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Frollo enrolls Jehan in the university, where he himself studied, but he is horrified to find that Jehan...
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...who is not allowed to marry, Frollo has few relationships other than with Quasimodo and Jehan. As he pursues his studies, his worldview grows more rigid and his beliefs grow zealous...
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Book 6, Chapter 1
Jehan and his friend Robin Poussepain are in the audience at the trial. They admire the...
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...sentences Quasimodo to a public beating on the pillory. As Quasimodo is being led away, Jehan shouts something from the audience and Robert, thinking it was Quasimodo who spoke, increases the...
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...usually sentenced to the pillory or the gallows and taken straight there from the court. Jehan approaches the clerk to confirm the sentence and the clerk, who hopes that Florian might...
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Book 7, Chapter 4
One morning a few days after this, Jehan gets up and realizes that he has run out of money. After a few moments,...
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Jehan reaches the landing and peers through the door into Frollo’s cell. The cell is like...
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...on the table before Frollo and he pores over it and murmurs to himself as Jehan eavesdrops. Frollo mutters that fire is the creative force in the world and that the...
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Compared with Frollo, Jehan is an open, sensual person who never denies himself any pleasures. Jehan cannot understand Frollo’s...
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Frollo asks Jehan why he has come and Jehan replies that he has come to ask Frollo for...
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The word, Frollo tells Jehan, means “fatality.” Underneath it, written in the same handwriting (also in Greek), is the word...
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Frollo is suspicious and questions Jehan further. Jehan immediately gives in and admits that he wants the money to visit a...
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Frollo says sadly that Jehan has no soul. Just as Jehan is about to leave, a knock on the door...
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Book 7, Chapter 5
Jacques Charmolue enters the cell and greets Frollo courteously. Jehan recognizes the man as a magistrate. Frollo asks Charmolue if he has been successful and...
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...room. As they make for the door, Charmolue stops in alarm—he can hear someone chewing. Jehan, under the table, has found a scrap of cheese on the floor and begun to...
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Book 7, Chapter 6
Once Frollo and Charmolue are gone, Jehan scrambles out from his hiding place and begins to poke around the cell. He finds...
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Frollo, meanwhile, sees Jehan leave and join Phoebus, and he sneaks after them. As he walks, Frollo listens to...
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Jehan asks Phoebus if he is sure Esmeralda will come and Phoebus confidently assures him that...
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Book 7, Chapter 7
...from a nearby stall, in order to conceal his own attire. At last, Phoebus and Jehan emerge from the pub. Jehan is very drunk but Phoebus is used to drinking and...
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Phoebus asks Jehan if he has any money left, as Phoebus needs some for his meeting with Esmeralda....
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Book 8, Chapter 1
...several weeks. One afternoon, as Gringoire wanders past the Palace of Justice, he bumps into Jehan and asks him what is going on inside the court. Jehan replies that a witch...
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Book 9, Chapter 1
...woman singing a song about the gallows. When he peeps through the window, he sees Jehan with his arms around a prostitute. At last, he stumbles back to Notre Dame and,...
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Book 10, Chapter 2
When Frollo arrives back at his cell, he finds Jehan waiting for him. Jehan slyly explains that he has run out of money again. He...
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Book 10, Chapter 3
...they will set out in one hour. Beside the fire, Gringoire sits deep in thought. Jehan is in the tavern and he is very drunk. He cries out that, although he...
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...Esmeralda, whom they plan to rescue, others discuss the many precious objects Notre Dame contains. Jehan says they should hang Quasimodo and he curses his brother, Frollo. Clopin approaches Gringoire and...
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Book 10, Chapter 4
In the square beneath Notre Dame, Clopin and Jehan take up a defiant stance at the base of the cathedral. Clopin raises his pitchfork...
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...is a demon. One suggests that churches sometimes defend themselves from attackers. Clopin asks where Jehan is and someone says he is probably dead. Clopin then asks for Gringoire but he...
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The ladder is propped up against the wall and Jehan begins to climb, followed by a hoard of truants. At the top, Jehan clambers over...
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Jehan hides from Quasimodo behind a statue of a king. For a few moments, Quasimodo does...
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Book 11, Chapter 1
...who fell from the tower and was impaled on a statue. This young man was Jehan. Frollo stops rowing for a second and gives a pained sigh. Esmeralda shivers because she...
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...the words: “Cain, what hast though done with thy brother?” He begins to weep for Jehan’s death and says that it is all Esmeralda’s fault because she has caused him to...
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