Pierrat Torturue



Pierrat Torturue is a supporting antagonist of the novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, as well as a minor antagonist in Disney's 1996 film adaptation of the same name. He is a corrupt jailer/torturer who is in league with Claude Frollo.

Novel
Torturue started out savagely flogging the bellringer Quasimodo due to charges of kidnapping the young gypsy girl Emseralda. He later detained Esmeralda for the attempted murder of Captain Phoebus, unaware of the fact that Frollo was the one who committed both crimes in the first place. Using his expertise, Torturue tortured Esmeralda so badly that she was forced to falsely confess to the crime, resulting her to be hanged. This act is what drove an angry Quasimodo to brutally throw off Frollo from the cathedral to his death before burying himself in Emseralda's grave.

It is unknown what happened to Torturue afterwards following the deaths of Frollo and Esmeralda.

Film
Torturue briefly appeared in the film, where he is ordered by Judge Claude Frollo to brutally torture the latter's former Captain of the Guard for being a 'disappointment', a task that Torturue takes extreme delight on, much to the disgust of an arriving Captain Phoebus.

It is unknown what happened to Torturue following the death of Frollo and the defeat of his soldiers.