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Phoebus is engaged to be wed with Fleur-de-Lys. However, his thoughts and actions are not on his fiancé. Below is a more complete description of the captain.
Formerly, service to the lovely and charming Fleur-de-Lys had not been unpleasant. But the captain had by degrees became blasé; and he had become more and more cool to the prospect of marriage. Besides, he was a fickle disposition, and, if one may say so, of rather vulgar tastes. Although of noble birth, he had contracted, with the help of his officer's uniform, more than one habit of the common solider. He enjoyed frequenting the tavern and the life he found there. He was never at ease unless surrounded by gross language, military gallantries, easy beauties, and easy conquests. book7 chap1
In book 7 chapter 1, when Esmeralda is invited to the Captain's home he wastes no time sweet talking her, even front of his fiancé and her friends. He will even stand up for her while they scoff at her clothes and mannerisms.
"Let them prattle, my little one," he repeated, clicking his gold spurs. "Perhaps your dress is a little extravagant and unusual, but when a girl is as lovely as you, what does it matter?" book7 chap1
The Captain is quite the charmer. While everyone is discussing the gypsy, a young girl forces Djali into a corner to examine the pouch around its neck and learn its secret. When its contents of wooden letters is spilled on the floor, the goat arranges them to spell "PHOEBUS". Well everyone in the house gets angry, Esmeralda runs out into the streets and Phoebus follows her. The reader assumes that then, out in the streets, Phoebus and Esmeralda devise their rendezvous for later that night.
Before his rendezvous Phoebus and Jehan Frollo get blasted drunk. Jehan passes out on the street and Phoebus begins to stumble towards the prearranged hotel. However, he soon realizes that a "phantom priest" (Claude Frollo) is following him. Claude proceeds to give Phoebus the money for the room if he can hide in a dark closet and watch. Since Phoebus is drunk he agrees to this exchange. Later on, in the hotel room when the Captain finally gets the gypsy's bodice off and she is agreeing to sleep with him, does the archdeacon come out of the shadows with a dagger and stab Phoebus in the neck.
Suddenly, above Phoebus' head, she saw another head, a face, livid, green, convulsive, woth the look of hell in its eyes. Close to this face a hand was holding a dagger. It was the face and the hand of the priest. He had broken through the door, and there he was. Phoebus could not see him. The gypsy remained motionless, frozen, made dumb by this terrible apparition-like a dove that raises her head just when the hawk is looking into her nest with his round eyes.
She could not even utter a cry. She saw the dagger descend upon Phoebus, and rise again dripping.
"Curses!" exclaimed the captain, and he fell to the floor.
She fainted. book7 chap8
Claude escapes while Esmeralda and Djali are left with the body and later found by the authorities. Esmeralda is arrested for murdering Phoebus and on charges of witchcraft thanks to Claude tipping off the authorities.
Phoebus recovers from the knife wound but never testifies in court. He did not want to soil his name with the whole incident. Instead he leaves town for two months in order to hang out with his garrison. It just so happens that he returns to Paris during Esmeralda's execution. Of course he does not come to her rescue as she is taken to the gibbet. It is Quasimodo that saves her.
Later, when Esmeralda sends Quasimodo to fetch him, Phoebus denies ever knowing her. Then, kicking Quasimodo in the chest, he rides off.
Phoebus ends up marrying Fleur-de-Lys, certainly a painful ending for this character.
