FROLLO Claude FROLLO, one of Disney's oldest villains is the antagonist in The Hunchback of North Dame, based on Victor Hugo's novel, Our Lady of Paris, published in 1831 and composed of eleven books, which focuses on the wretched story of Quasimodo, the gypsy Esmeralda and Archdeacon Claude Frollo in fifteenth-century Paris. Quasimodo, the hunchback, saves Esmeralda's life at a peak moment where FROLLO harasses her. While Esmeralda dies on the gallows, frollo is eventually killed by Quasimodo, who full of sadness at Esmeralda's death, throws him from one of the cathedral's towers.