<P> After an uneasy respite, a mob of Paris' Truands led by Clopin Trouillefou storms Notre Dame, and although Quasimodo tries to fend them off by throwing stones and bricks down onto the mob and even pours deadly molten lead, the mob continues attacking until Phoebus and his soldiers arrive to fight and drive off the assailants . Unbeknownst to Quasimodo, Frollo lures Esmeralda outside, where he has her arrested and hanged . When Quasimodo sees Frollo smiling cruelly at Esmeralda's execution, he turns on his master and throws him to his death from the balcony in rage . </P> <P> Quasimodo cries in despair, lamenting "There is all that I ever loved!" He then leaves Notre Dame, never to return, and heads for the Gibbet of Montfaucon beyond the city walls, passing by the Convent of the Filles - Dieu, a home for 200 reformed prostitutes, and the leper colony of Saint - Lazare . After reaching the Gibbet, he lies next to Esmeralda's corpse, where it had been unceremoniously thrown after the execution . He stays at Montfaucon, and eventually dies of starvation, clutching the body of the deceased Esmeralda . Years later, an excavation group exhumes both of their skeletons, which have become intertwined . When they try to separate them, Quasimodo's bones crumble into dust . </P> <P> In the novel, he symbolically shows Esmeralda the difference between himself and the self - centered yet handsome Captain Phoebus, with whom the girl has become infatuated . He places two vases in her room: one is a beautiful crystal vase, yet broken and filled with dry, withered flowers; the other a humble pot, yet filled with beautiful, fragrant flowers . Esmeralda takes the withered flowers from the crystal vase and presses them passionately on her heart . </P> <P> A small sculpture of Quasimodo can be found on Notre Dame, on the exterior of the north transept along the Rue du Cloître - Notre - Dame . </P>

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