Original sledge run

Well, Chapter 2 went down like a lead balloon... (Clearly all the people who said they wanted to see what happened next didn't want that to happen next!)

Falls between two stools on Hans, I suspect; he doesn't become a romantic figure or get redeemed, and he doesn't act as the villain and get punished for it. At any rate, here is the original version of the 'sledge run' passage, from before the rewrite for 'shorter sentences, faster action and getting things in the right order':
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Edits and alternate versions

Tagging sprint, Round Three!

I went back through years of posts (unfortunately I seem to have become more prolific again of late) trying to relocate the various ones where I've posted examples of rewritten or deleted material. Virtue was rewarded in that I did manage to track down the Carnegie Hall one I'd failed to find previously and assumed to be lost in a fanfiction.net PM conversation somewhere:
https://igenlode.dreamwidth.org/101703.html

I also took the opportunity to go through and use an emulated browser to access (and paste in content from) the various archived Tumblr links that no longer work, adding another new tag for that: https://igenlode.dreamwidth.org/tag/tumblr
Unfortunately cosette_giry's list of 19th century female names has not only moved blog address since it was posted, but has subsequently been deleted :-(

F de l'opera: missing scenes

Missing scenes from F de L'Opera's Tumblr posts cut and pasted here (so that I can link to them from the original post!)
( Raoul's proposal )

( Sorelli and the Count and Christine )

The real Chateau de Chagny

( View of the Chateau de Chagny drawn by J.Buvry in 1818 )