Raoul de Chagny is a Vicomte (a French term for person who has relatively the same amount of title/wealth of a British Viscount) and Christine Daaé's childhood friend. They first met when he was a young child when he went on vacation in Northern France. He meets up with her again after watching her performance at the former managers' retirement ceremony at the Palais Garnier. He reminds her that he is "the little boy who went into the sea to rescue your scarf," which provokes her laughter. At first, Christine refuses to recognize Raoul, in fear that the "Angel of Music" would return to heaven. However, they become engaged later. Unknowingly to them, Erik had been spying on them. On the day they were going to elope, Erik kidnaps her during a performance of Faust at the opera house. Raoul then, along with the mysterious man known as "The Persian", goes down into the cellars of the Opera in an attempt to rescue Christine. He and the Persian endure near-drowning and torture in a mirrored, super-heated chamber before Erik eventually relents due to Christine's willingness to sacrifice her happiness for torture, and has to be put to bed by Erik because the treatment has left him "limp as a rag." 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.
You can often hear the popular expression : " In a healthy body - healthy mind ." I never understood this idiotic sequence to put the cart before the horse. In my mind , a healthy body - it is always 100% product healthy mind . Because it is from your wisdom will depend on what and at what rate will turn your body . That, Well ... today we will learn in such a rare , despite its favor , a thing as a healthy lifestyle. We'll know what to do in order to be healthy , strong and happy life. I believe that all the efforts of the reasonable person should be aimed not at making patching and repair your body . And the fact , that to give himself a way of life in which the body as little as possible would be broke . Then there is no need to treat him , losing a lot of nice things around. It's pretty darn reasonable. But in practice, stick to it very few . Yes ! All are constantly told that health - the most expensive . But it should be , in practice , for him - one. Why ? Too many temptations around . Too many bad examples around. And too little accurate information . ... So it turns out that in the pursuit of "the good life" we lose our health. Nothing in the universe just does not happen. All balanced . For each, plus we get a minus . For each spent force we will get a reward. Therefore, for every "joy" be prepared to pay what is ! It is the law of communicating vessels : the more one is, the less the other. Drinking, drugs , gluttony, " big money " - all these pleasures will require in return your health and take away a slice of life. And the more "joy" , the more will have to pay for it . It turns out that as long as a person is poor , he is ready to give all their health to make money and pleasure . And when a man becomes rich, he is ready to give all their money for the sake of health and youth , which is associated with it . Because even though the time and often referred to as a good doctor , but even if it did, in any case , it is worthless kosmitolog !
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.