the phantom of the opera by gaston leroux

There, he told me all he knew about the ghost and gave me evidence of the ghost’s existence, including strange letters from Christine Daaé. I was very interested in the story of the Persian and wanted, if there was still time, to find this valuable and exciting witness. My luck began to improve, and I discovered him in his little apartment in the Rue de Rivoli, where he had lived ever since and where he died five months after my visit. He had heard the stories about the ghost and had met with a man who said he knew the ghost well. When I asked him about the possibility of the ghost, he laughed. He believed that the events between the two brothers were related to Christine Daaé. We spent a good part of the evening together, and he told me the whole Chagny case as he understood it at the time. Faure, the magistrate in charge of the Chagny disappearance. He was talking to a lively and well-dressed, little, old man, and he happily introduced me to him. On that day, I had left the library, disappointed after more research, when I met the manager of our National Academy. The events do not date more than thirty years back, and one can still find old, respectable men at the Opera who remember the mysterious kidnapping of Christine Daaé, the disappearance of the Vicomte de Chagny, and the death of his brother, Count Phillipe.Īt last, I received the proof that I had been right and that the Opera Ghost was more than a product of the imagination. When I began to research the ghost at the National Academy of Music, I realized immediately the relationship between the story of the ghost and one of the most mysterious stories ever to excite the Paris upper classes. He was not a creature of the imagination of the artists, managers, dancers, or any others who worked there but was a real man, although he looked like a ghost.

To begin the story, the author of this work tells the reader how he became certain that the opera ghost really existed.

The phantom of the opera by gaston leroux