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Beauvais and coach travel
18 July 2021 07:03 pmI had a look at the Beauvais problem and the details of what I had actually written in the last two chapters, and concluded that the choice of location is probably all right as it stands.
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I think all that is reasonably consistent, after all, with the idea of a four- or five-hour journey. It can be done there and back in a day if you are willing to make a very long day of it, although you wouldn't do so all that often, but if you are elderly or travelling with luggage it would normally be a one-way trip.
On the other hand it wouldn't be completely out of the question to rewrite it to specify a railway component — I haven't created any plot element that's absolutely dependent on coach travel. Note however that Leroux did have Raoul planning to elope long-distance by coach in canon: on ne devait pas prendre le chemin de fer pour dérouter le fantôme! (Ironically I took it absolutely for granted in Arctic Raoul that the protagonists would be travelling from Paris to Chagny by railway...)
( Travel data )
I think all that is reasonably consistent, after all, with the idea of a four- or five-hour journey. It can be done there and back in a day if you are willing to make a very long day of it, although you wouldn't do so all that often, but if you are elderly or travelling with luggage it would normally be a one-way trip.
On the other hand it wouldn't be completely out of the question to rewrite it to specify a railway component — I haven't created any plot element that's absolutely dependent on coach travel. Note however that Leroux did have Raoul planning to elope long-distance by coach in canon: on ne devait pas prendre le chemin de fer pour dérouter le fantôme! (Ironically I took it absolutely for granted in Arctic Raoul that the protagonists would be travelling from Paris to Chagny by railway...)
