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Clopin Trouillefou gnawed his great fists with rage.
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Hark ye! thou standest before three puissant sovereignsmyself, Clopin Trouillefou, King of Tunis, successor of the Grand Coësre, Supreme Ruler of the Kingdom of Argot; Mathias Hungadi Spicali, Duke of Egypt and Bohemia, the yellow-vised old fellow over there with a clout round his head; Guillaume Rousseau, Emperor of Galilee, that fat fellow whos hugging a wench instead of attending to us.
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Master Coppenole himself applauded, and Clopin Trouillefou, who had competedand Lord knows to what heights his ugliness could attainhad to own himself defeated.
V. Quasimodo. Book I 1917
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Meanwhile, Clopin Trouillefou, after conferring a moment with his brothers of Egypt and of Galilee, the latter of whom was quite drunk, cried sharply, Silence!
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Clopin Trouillefou, invested with the regal insignia, had not one rag the more or the less upon him.
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In the midst of this Round Table of the riffraff, Clopin Trouillefou, as Doge of this Senate, as head of this peerage, as Pope of this Conclave, dominated the heterogeneous mass; in the first place by the whole height of his barrel, and then by virtue of a lofty, fierce, and formidable air which made his eye flash and rectified in his savage countenance the bestial type of the vagabond race.
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Theyve been taken up with all the worldwith Clopin Trouillefou, with the Cardinal, with Coppenole, with Quasimodo, with the devil; but with Madame the Virgin Mary not a bit.
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There were no longer scholars, ambassadors, burghers, men or women; neither Clopin Trouillefou nor Gilles Lecornu nor Marie Quatrelivres nor Robin Poussepain.
V. Quasimodo. Book I 1917
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Now, resumed Clopin Trouillefou, when I clap my hands, do you, Andry le Rouge, knock over the stool with your knee; François Chante-Prune will hang on to the rascals legs, and you, Bellevigne, jump on to his shouldersbut all three at the same time, do you hear?
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cried Clopin Trouillefou to the three Argotiers waiting to fall on Gringoire like spiders on a fly.
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