Question

[cleolinda]

Hey, quick dumb question: does anyone have or know how to get the original French text of Phantom of the Opera ? (I mean, quickly, online, and/or free.) There's a line I'd like the original version of--it's translated in one of my editions as "A sort of bluey light surrounded us," and I would really, really like to know what the original wording

Comments

[ringlunatic]

I think the entire thing can be found here

[cleolinda]

YAY!

[anatsuno]

give me a precise chapter?

[cleolinda]

It's "La lyre d’Apollon," but I think someone's already gotten it for me.

[anatsuno]

you mean, me, down there, with my second comment? heh.

[cleolinda]

The first comment with the link to the French text, but I'm also citing what you said about "bleuatre." : )

[ambiguousreason]

man, I love that you can post random questions like this and people actually have answers. it would never work on my LJ, lol

[cleolinda]

This is why I love y'all. : )

[anatsuno]

"Je sentis l’air humide et puis César s’arrêta. La nuit s’était éclaircie. Une lueur bleuâtre nous entourait. Je regardai où nous nous trouvions."

Which, canonically, should have become a more 'normal'-sounding "blueish", but bluey, why not. (-âtre is -ish, rather typically so).

[cleolinda]

Yes! That's it exactly. I looked at my better translation, and it does use "blueish." I was just curious as to what the hell word would have resulted in any translator coming up with "bluey."

(I should say, not my personal translation, but a newer translation that I know to be more accurate and unabridged.)

[chamfron]

The original line:
"Une lueur bleuâtre nous entourait."

Which I translate as:
"A bluish light surrounded us"