| rdfs:comment | - Raoul de Chagny is on a boat!
- In Gaston Leroux's novel, The Phantom of the Opera, Raoul is described as having a small, fair mustache, beautiful blue eyes, a complexion like a girl's, and an air of "just having left the women's apron-strings." His elder brother and former guardian, Comte Philippe de Chagny, is a man of the world who indulges in a dalliance with the Opera's prima ballerina, Sorelli, and is exasperated by his brother's attachment to "the little baggage" Christine. Philippe is later drowned by Erik when he goes looking for Raoul in the cellars of the Opera.
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| abstract | - Raoul de Chagny is on a boat!
- In Gaston Leroux's novel, The Phantom of the Opera, Raoul is described as having a small, fair mustache, beautiful blue eyes, a complexion like a girl's, and an air of "just having left the women's apron-strings." His elder brother and former guardian, Comte Philippe de Chagny, is a man of the world who indulges in a dalliance with the Opera's prima ballerina, Sorelli, and is exasperated by his brother's attachment to "the little baggage" Christine. Philippe is later drowned by Erik when he goes looking for Raoul in the cellars of the Opera. Raoul has been to sea, and plans to go on a suicidal polar expedition if Christine refuses to pledge herself to him. He is puzzled and sometimes angered by her allegiance to Erik, and thinks that she may be toying with his heart. He is the youngest member of his family, with an older brother (Philippe De Chagny) and two sisters already married. However, in the film adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical he mentions his (still living) parents, who had passed away long before the events of the novel. In many adaptations (such as the 1990 miniseries), Raoul's character is ommitted entirely in favor of a different love interest for Christine.
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