Fic progress

Finished Plot Point Sixteen, after spending ages trying to research whether the elderly and probably highly conservative Comte de Chagny was likely to have worn "a neatly-trimmed imperial" before his death circa 1873 (apparently they are named after Napoleon III). In the end I had the brainwave of simply ascribing the facial hairstyle in question to one of Raoul's two handy brothers-in-law who can be as fashionable and/or progressive as they like since we have hitherto heard nothing about them :-p

I picked the Baron de Voscelles, since we know that Raoul's sister Simone de Voscelles is a Baronne and can thus deduce his existence! I don't even know Valentine's married surname (unless I should suddenly need it before the end of the story...)

It's going to be a pretty odd sort of a chapter, though.( Read more... )