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| Cristina Bean-Jones and Le Cirque du Soleil |
Today, The Jones have returned to their English classes. They have revised Countable & Uncountable and the Plural.
More information: The Plural
The family has tasted some delicious dishes to practise with food and its containers and they have created delicious recipes.
The Grandma, who is a horrible cook, has decided to learn from them and try to cook more often but doing this can be something very dangerous because her last experience with fire, some years ago, finished in a tragedy precisely in Paris.
The Grandma, who is a horrible cook, has decided to learn from them and try to cook more often but doing this can be something very dangerous because her last experience with fire, some years ago, finished in a tragedy precisely in Paris.
Later, the family has read another chapter of Oscar Wilde's The picture of Dorian Gray and The Grandma has explained some popular legends.
On the one hand, she has explained some legends from the French Wars in Catalonia as The Legend of the Drummer from El Bruc; The Legend of Sant Narcís and the Flies and Cardona and its Salt Mountain.
On the another hand, she has talked about the mysterious lives of William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes and about the real authory of their works. Moreover, she has told about The Legend of the Ghost of a Grandma in Sant Boi de Llobregat, near Barcelona.
More information: All That's Interesting
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| The Drummer from El Bruc |
The family is very happy because Cristina Bean-Jones is going to accomplish her dream: being a fix member of Le Cirque du Soleil, this wonderful and amazing company who was born in Montreal, in Quebec and nowadays is the most important reference in the world of circus and entertainment.
Cristina is a fantastic enchanter of snakes and her skills and abilities are going to surprise the spectators around the world. Before joining to the Quebecers company, Cristina is going to practise with another local company: Le Cirque de JP, the most famous French circus.
The Jones have demonstrated their Alegria to Cristina and they have expressed their best wishes to her in her closer future.
More information: The Culture Trip
Definitely, today has born a new star in Paris: Cristina Bean-Jones and her name is going to be written next to the great legends of the French city like The stone carver of Notre-Dame, Belphegor or The Phantom of the Opera.
More information: Paris Attitude
This afternoon, The Jones are going to visit Le Palais Garnier to know more things about another legend: The Phantom of the Opera.
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| Hamlet, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Don Quixot & Sancho |
The story of the Phantom of the Opera was originally published in a series of articles in La Galois and then in a book in 1911 entitled, Le Fantôme de l’Opéra written by a French journalist, Gastón Leroux.
When the story was first published it was not popular and the book went out of print.
Leroux whose speciality was investigative journalism based his story on true-life incidents. In fact, many who have researched this subject believe with just a few exceptions the story has several elements that are true.
More information: Opéra National de Paris-le Palais Garnier
The opera house in the story was based on the real Opera Garnier in Paris. The Opera Garnier does have underground tunnels and it also has an underground lake. Leroux used this setting in several dramatic scenes in his story.
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| The Phantom of The Opera & Cristina Bean-Jones |
There was an incident where a chandelier did fall in the Opera Garnier setting the building on fire and killing a woman.
Leroux used a falling chandelier in his story as a distraction so his Phantom could kidnap Christine.
The romance between the Phantom and Christine in the story is just fantasy but it is believed that Leroux based both characters on real people.
The Phantom is based upon a man named Erik who was born in a small village in Normandy, near Rouen. He was born with a horribly disfigured face so his parents abandoned him when he was eight. A circus basically took him and for 7 years he was used as an attraction.
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| The Phantom of The Opera |
It was believed that someone was secretly living in the opera house and many felt it was the ghost of the real Erik. In fact, many claimed that near Box 5 they heard ghostly voices and whispers when the area was unoccupied.
There were other witnesses that stated that they saw this phantom running through various parts of the opera house. Even more eerie these witnesses stated this figure wore a black cape and a mask over its face.
Renata de Waele in 1993 wrote a narrative that compared the fictional to the real stories. She worked in public relations at the Opera Garnier for many years.
Some of her speculations have been proven others have not. So reality is blurred with fiction which leaves the curious with an intriguing mystery.
Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
James A. Baldwin
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