This blog draws upon the following primary sources. Abbreviations given below will be used throughout this site.
Unless otherwise notated, I have translated relevant passages myself. I only know a bit of French, so I have used the imTranslator comparison tool. I understand these translations are not completely accurate, but I feel they are sufficient for my analysis.
Original – In French –> GL
Original translation by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos –> TdM
New translation by Lowell Bair –> LB
The Essential Phantom of the Opera by Leonard Wolf –> LW
Adapted by Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier –>RL
Mireille Ribiere (Translator) –>MR
David Coward (Translator) –>DC*