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Igenlode Wordsmith ([personal profile] igenlode) wrote in [community profile] vicomte_de_chagny2022-01-08 05:55 pm
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Favourite line

I think my favourite line in Leroux, for no very good reason, is the one that turns out, when I look it up, not only not to be in de Mattos, but not to be in any of the English translations at all (because it was cut from the serialised text before the novel's publication) -- which does at least explain why I could only remember it in French and was looking it up to find out what the English version was!

It's the one brief line Mon Dieu! fit le vicomte... et il s'assit.
https://fdelopera.tumblr.com/post/102057039068/welcome-to-the-30th-installment-of-15-weeks-of

(Leroux-Raoul's reaction to Christine telling him that she loves him: "Oh my God"... and he collapses at the knees :-D)

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