This circumstance gave rise to many rumours.Nobody doubted，however，that the day had at length arrived when，according to the compact，Quasimodo—otherwise the devil—was to carry off Claude Frollo—otherwise the sorcerer.It was presumed that he had broken the body in order to extract the soul，as a monkey cracks a nut-shell to get at the kernel.
It was for this reason the Archdeacon was denied Christian burial.
Louis XI died the following year，in August，1483.
As for Pierre Gringoire，he not only succeeded in saving the goat，but gained considerable success as a writer of tragedies.It appears that after dabbling in astronomy，philosophy，architecture，hermetics—in short，every variety of craze—he returned to tragedy，which is the craziest of the lot.This is what he called'coming to a tragic end.'Touching his dramatic triumphs，we read in the royal privy accounts for 1483：
'To Jehan Marchand and Pierre Gringoire，carpenter and composer，for making and composing the Mystery performed at the Chatelet of Paris on the day of the entry of Monsieur the Legate；for duly ordering the characters，with properties and habiliments proper to the said Mystery，as likewise for constructing the wooden stages necessary for the same：one hundred livres.'
P us de Chateaupers also came to a tragic end—he married.
Chapter 4-The Marriage of Quasimodo
We have already said that Quasimodo disappeared from Notre-Dame on the day of the death of the gipsy girl and the Archdeacon.He was never seen again，nor was it known what became of him.
In the night following the execution of Esmeralda，the hangman's assistants took down her body from the gibbet and carried it，according to custom，to the great charnel vault of Montfaucon.
Montfaucon，to use the words of Sauval，was'the most ancient and the most superb gibbet in the kingdom.'Between the faubourgs of the Temple and Saint-Martin，about a hundred and sixty toises from the wall of Paris and a few bow-shots from La Courtille，there stood on the highest point of a very slight eminence，but high enough to be visible for several leagues round，an edifice of peculiar form，much resembling a Celtic cromlech，and claiming like the cromlech its human sacrifices.