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Visual development for Tangled (2010) by Paul Felix

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On 22 September, 1909, the Parisian daily newspaper, Le Gaulois, ran the advertisement pictured above, announcing the serialization of Gaston Leroux's new novel, Le Fantôme de l'Opéra.

Leroux's novel premiered on 23 September, 1909 — 115 years ago today. It ran for 15 weeks, and it was segmented into 68 sections, each section covering roughly half a chapter's worth of content.

To celebrate 115 years of Le Fantôme de l'Opéra in print, over the next 15 weeks I will be posting all 68 sections of the Gaulois publication of Phantom to my blog. These posts will correspond with the original dates of publication.

Here is a link to Le Gaulois for 22 September, 1909. The advert for Phantom is in the middle of the page.

And in case you are wondering what the text of the advertisement above says, here is my translation:

Weary of purely psychological novels, the public awoke one day with a great desire to hear stories. Straightaway, these stories were served up — tales of bandits and policemen — assuredly quite amusing, but which soon grew tedious in their turn, yet without appeasing the public's thirst for mystery and magic. This is why the Gaulois has requested from one of the public's most rightly beloved authors, M. Gaston Leroux, a novel which, while departing from the genre dear to the Conan Doyles of the Old and New World, is still replete with the delectable inquietude that will give a thrill to the beguiled reader. More than once, this irresistible anguish will conjure in the minds of some of our female readers the dreadful, terrifying, ghostly, and sorrowfully human image, despite all of the illusion that surrounds it, of The Phantom of the Opera. We need not introduce our readers to M. Gaston Leroux, whom it is generally agreed is in possession of the most astonishing suppleness of imagination of which one can conceive, but we would indeed like to say that The Phantom of the Opera is worthy of achieving even greater success in the Gaulois than that which was attained in the Illustration by The Mystery of the Yellow Room and The Perfume of the Lady in Black, by the same author. Tomorrow, this Thursday, in the "Gaulois," read: The Phantom of the Opera by M. Gaston Leroux

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This is how it all began! On Thursday, 23 September, 1909, the first section of Gaston Leroux’s Le Fantôme de l'Opéra was printed on page 3 in the feuilleton section of the Parisian daily newspaper, Le Gaulois.

Le Fantôme de l'Opéra ran for 15 weeks, from 23 September, 1909, to 8 January, 1910, and was printed in 68 sections.

To celebrate 115 years of Phantom in print, I will be posting all 68 sections of Leroux’s novel on each day that Le Fantôme originally appeared in Le Gaulois.

This first section includes the text of the Avant-Propos (Foreword) from Leroux’s novel (I’ve included it as a single panel, and as two panels for easier reading).

As you will see in the following sections, Leroux and his editors at Pierre Lafitte et Cie made significant edits to the Gaulois text when they published the First Edition of Le Fantôme de l'Opéra in April of 1910 (including some amusing typos that made their way into several of the published English translations).

In the following sections, I will be highlighting all of these edits that were made to the Gaulois text, so you can see exactly what was changed.

However, Leroux must have been happy with the Avant-Propos, because the text of the First Edition matches that of the Gaulois edition.

To read my translation of the Avant-Propos, click here.

If you are following along in David Coward’s translation of the First Edition of Phantom of the Opera (which I recommend for its accuracy and completeness), click here for the paperback, or click here for the Kindle version. Both link to Amazon US, but I encourage you to buy your copy from another vender if you so choose. The ISBN-13 of David Coward's translation is: 978-0199694570.

Click here to see the entire edition of Le Gaulois from 23 September, 1909. This link brings you to page 3 of the newspaper – Le Fantôme is at the bottom of the page in the feuilleton section. Click on the arrow buttons at the bottom of the screen to turn the pages of the newspaper, and click on the Zoom button at the bottom left to magnify the text.

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klance is so the 1 coded

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yall im cooking here

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girls will be like "my comfort couple" and its just that one gay couple that never made it

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KEITH AND LANCE DESERVED SO MUCH BETTER. LITERALLY EVERYTHING POINTED TO THEM BEING ENDGAME AND WE WERE ROBBED.

thank you for coming to my lecture.

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klance fanfics

lance and keith, neck and neck (group chat au)

call me, beep me (a wrong number text that then snowballs into something else)

on thin ice (hockey player keith and figure skater lance)

there, nestled against his pulse (a soulmate au that made me feel very strong emotions at 4 in the morning)

i'd choose you (in a hundred lifetimes) (one where they watch themselves fall in love in different realities)

dirty laundry (one of the most famous klance fics, a fake dating au)

the marks we make (another soulmate au but this one is more fluff with a dose of angst)

shut up and dance with me (one where lance and keith are dancers and have to team up for a competition)

nothing's quite as sweet (a super cute coffee shop au)

homesick at space camp (a fake marriage au with angst but a happy ending)

3 words or less (cute oneshot)

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Why in Mexico we don't celebrate women's day.

Today we march.

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“I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.” 

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“He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar." 

-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

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I’m a little in love with @timebird84‘s young Erik in Persia and all of that HAIR so I had to draw him. 

Ref.

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“I had given him life, but now he chose to take no more from me. And in the tomb-like silence of this sunlit room, his last, unspoken words rang in my ears like the tolling of a passing bell. Forget me…” - Madeline (Phantom by Susan Kay)

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Task: Take a picture of yourself and your copy of the Leroux book. You can use the book in every way you want to hide (or not to hide) your face, in case you don’t want to show it completely. Make sure that the book’s cover can be seen.

Post the photo and use the tag #the phandom’s masquerade. Also please tag me :D ( @timebird84 ).

And @everyone , no matter if you want to participate or just look forward to see the results: Please reblog this post, so many people will get to see it and hopefully join the challenge. Thank you!

I personally want to send greetings from Ukraine. I was happy to take part in this challenge❤️❤️❤️

#The Phandom’s Masquerade

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Man it's hard being a soprano in these trying times

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The Boy(s) !

Akward Grandpa, Depressed Dad, Emo Uncle (+Kween Kitty™️) and Sushine Son...

What a merry phamily.