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When Pierre reemerges in the book, four years later, he is found by Claude Frollo while at work in the streets of Paris.
Instead of the gypsy, on the same carpet, whose arabesques but a moment before seemed to vanish beneath the fantastic patterns of her dance, the archdeacon saw only the man in the yellow and red coat, who himself, in order to earn a few sous, was strutting around in a circle, his elbows on his hips, his head thrown back, his face all red, his neck stretched out, with a chair rung between his teeth. On the chair, he had tied a cat, lent to him by a woman in the crowd. The poor tabby at that moment was yowling with terror. book7 chap2
Pierre explains to the archdeacon his new employment.
Well, I was starving to death. Fortunately, I have a rather strong jawbone, so I said to my jaw, "Perform some marvelous feats of balancing; get your own food.' Ale te ipsam1. A band of beggars, with whom I became friends taught me 20 Herculean tricks. And now, by the sweat of my brow, every night I feed my teeth the bread they have earned during the day." book7 chap2
1"[You] nourish yourself"
The poet then tells the priest everything that has happened to him and his relationship with Esmeralda. He also tells Claude about Esmeralda's crush on Phoebus. With this information Claude tracks down Phoebus and stabs him. After this encounter Pierre Gringoire fades from the novel's forefront until Claude meets with him to discuss rescuing Esmeralda.
It is Pierre's idea that the Truands (riffraff) should storm the cathedral and rescue the gypsy. The plan works and while the "rescue" is going on, Pierre and Claude sneak Esmeralda and Djali out the back door of the cathedral. They then take a boat across the river and when the boat lands Pierre is faced with a decision.
It is certain that Gringoire was in a state of cruel perplexity. He reflected that poor Djali too, according to existing legislation, would be hanged if she were retaken; that would be a great pity; that the two condemned females thus clinging to him would be too much for him; and that his companion would be most happy to take charge of the gypsy girl. Yet a violent battle was going on in his mind, wherein, like Jupiter of the Iliad, he placed in the balance alternately the gypsy girl and the goat. As he looked first at one, then at the other, his eyes moistened, and he muttered to himself, "And yet I cannot save you both!" book11 chap1
Thus, when the boat lands Pierre runs off with Djali, leaving the gypsy girl with the archdeacon. Of course look at this situation from his standpoint. Esmeralda was a terrible wife, she always talking about Phoebus and made him sleep on the couch. Nor does Pierre know what the archdeacon's plans are for the gypsy, he just knows that Claude is infatuated with her. Pierre and Djali actually survive the novel
As for Pierre Gringoire, he not only managed to save the goat, but he became somewhat a success as a dramatist. It appears that, after delving into astrology, philosophy, architecture, hermetics, and having tasted every variety of silly pursuit, he returned to tragedy, which is the silliest of all. book11 chap3
