La Falourdel is the landlady of the inn where Phoebus tries to seduce Esmeralda. Phoebus is stabbed by Frollo, who has been watching the seduction from a cupboard. La Falourdel believes that Frollo is a ghost and that Esmeralda is a witch who has stabbed Phoebus. La Falourdel is a witness in Esmeralda’s trial.
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La Falourdel Character Timeline in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The timeline below shows where the character La Falourdel appears in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Book 7, Chapter 7
...the money. Frollo follows him to the door of an inn. A wizened old landlady, La Falourdel , lets them in and Phoebus gives her the coin. La Falourdel puts it in...
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Book 7, Chapter 8
...she wakes up, she finds that Phoebus has been carried from the room and that La Falourdel has accused her of stabbing him. Frollo is nowhere to be seen.
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Book 8, Chapter 1
...beside him in the crowd points out that one of the judges is Jacques Charmolue. La Falourdel is among the witnesses and she stands up to testify.
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La Falourdel explains that, one night when she was at her spinning wheel, two men came to...
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The handsome man and the girl went back upstairs and, not long after this, La Falourdel heard a splash outside her window. She rushed to the casement and saw a ghostly...
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...in horror, terrified by the tale of the phantom monk. One of the judges asks La Falourdel which of the two men gave her the coin and she replies that it was...
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Book 9, Chapter 1
Frollo stumbles through the streets and stops outside La Falourdel ’s brothel. He can hear the old woman singing a song about the gallows. When...
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