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Book 7 Chapter 4 is where we witness the interactions between the two brothers. While Claude wracks himself with lust for Esmeralda, Jehan is hitting him up for money to aid himself in his hedonistic pursuits.
I guess the two brothers do have something in common.
"What brings you here?"
"Brother," answered the scholar, trying to assume a decent, serious, and modest demeanor, and twisting his cap in his hands with an air of innocence, "I came to ask you..."
"What?"
"For some moral advice which I sorely need." Jehan dared not add aloud, "And for some little money, which I more sorely need."
Here is some more dialogue between the two from that chapter.
The religious authority versus the professional student.
"Jehan, you are slipping down an incline. Do you know where you are going?"
"Yes, to the tavern," said Jehan.
"The tavern can only lead you to the pillory."
"It has a lantern just like any other, and perhaps the one with Diogenes would have found his man."
"The pillory leads to the gallows."
"The gallows is a scale, with a man at one end and the whole world on the other. Oh, it's great being a man!"
"The gallows leads to hell."
"That's just a big fire!"
"Jehan, Jehan! your end will be bad."
"But the beginning will have been good."
As Misty explains in her homepage Mr. Lincoln's Notre Dame de Paris Page, that Jehan Frollo is an antithesis of Quasimodo. Both were raised by Claude Frollo. However, Jehan is the dark side of the archdeacon, manifested in his younger brother. I guess it is just good triumphing over evil when Quasimodo kill both Jehan and Claude at the end of the book.
I feel this paragraph helps to describe this often overlooked character.
The young man was laughing and fondling the girl. The old woman was La Falourdal; the girl was a strumpet; the young man was his brother Jehan.
Claude continued to watch them. He saw Jehan go to a window at the other end of the room, open it, look out on the quay, where in the distance a thousand lighted windows glimmered. And then he heard him say as he shut the window, "Upon my soul, it's dark already! Folks are lighting their candles, and the good God his stars."
Then Jehan went over to the hussy, and smashed a bottle that was on the table, exclaiming, "Empty already, damn! And I've no more money! Isabeau, darling, I won't be satisfied with Jupiter till he's changed your two white breasts into two black bottles that I may suck Beaune wine from them day and night." book9 chap1
A few days before the Truands (riffraff) attack Notre-Dame, Jehan goes and asks his brother Claude for some more money. This time the archdeacon is less willing to pay for Jehan's debauchery and the two have a quarrel. In the end Claude hits his brother in the head with purse of coins as Jehan threatens to join the Truands. Of course he joins the Truands and he fits in nicely. But his career with them is short for that night he dies at the hands of Quasimodo while assaulting the cathedral. Here is the description of his demise:
After climbing a ladder to the top of the cathedral he encounters Quasimodo. Jehan shoots the hunchback in the shoulder with a crossbow which hardly affects him. Quasimodo then attacks. Tearing off all of Jehan's armor and clothing with one hand while binding Jehan's arms with the other. Quasimodo then proceeds to kill Jehan.
Quasimodo stepped to the gallery, and, holding the scholar by the feet with one hand only, swung him around like a sling over the abyss. There followed a noise like some box made of bone smashing against a wall. Something fell, but it stopped a third of the way down, being arrested in it's decent by one of the architectural projections. It was Jehan's body, which remained suspended there, bent double, the loins broken and the skull empty. book10 chap4
The manner of Jehan's death probably holds some symbolism. Naked, brains knocked out, killed by the "good guy", and ends up dying upon the structure of the teachings he mocked in every way.
