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Armand Moncharmin
Little Meg’s mother is an honest, yet credulous box attendant at the Opera House. Although she is the only person to have direct interactions with the Phantom of the Opera, her frank, unselfconscious manner of speaking gives her little credibility, as she does not understand that other people might doubt the existence of an Opera ghost. In her cooperation with the Phantom, she is motivated both by respect for the Phantom’s elegant, polite attitude, as well as his promise to make her daughter an Empress—a fact that gives her little credibility in the eyes of directors Richard and Moncharmin, even though it later proves partially true. However, she is outspoken and unafraid to defend herself. She expresses her thoughts freely, convinced of her own righteousness and of the Phantom’s existence.
Mme Giry Quotes in The Phantom of the Opera
The The Phantom of the Opera quotes below are all either spoken by Mme Giry or refer to Mme Giry. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 8
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Terror struck, followed by a general stampede. My intention here is not to revive the memory of that momentous event, for the curious reader can easily consult the accounts that appeared in the press at the time. Suffice it to say that many people were wounded and one died.
The chandelier had crashed upon the head of a poor woman who had come to the Opera that evening for the very first time in her life, and killed her instantly. She was the concierge whom Richard had chosen to replace Mme Giry, the Phantom’s preferred attendant. The next day one of the headlines read: ‘Two hundred thousand kilos hit concierge!’ That was her sole obituary!
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Mme Giry Quotes in The Phantom of the Opera
The The Phantom of the Opera quotes below are all either spoken by Mme Giry or refer to Mme Giry. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 8
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Terror struck, followed by a general stampede. My intention here is not to revive the memory of that momentous event, for the curious reader can easily consult the accounts that appeared in the press at the time. Suffice it to say that many people were wounded and one died.
The chandelier had crashed upon the head of a poor woman who had come to the Opera that evening for the very first time in her life, and killed her instantly. She was the concierge whom Richard had chosen to replace Mme Giry, the Phantom’s preferred attendant. The next day one of the headlines read: ‘Two hundred thousand kilos hit concierge!’ That was her sole obituary!
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