Read Le Fantôme de l'Opéra in Frenchwith every sentence explained

Le Fantôme de l'Opéra by Gaston Leroux was first published in 1910. In Passage you read the full text in the original French, marked intermediate and filed under horror, mystery and crime and romance.

Box Five must always stay empty. The Opera Ghost insists on it.

Everyone at the Paris Opera has a story about the ghost: the ballet girls who saw a man in evening dress with a skull for a face, the scene-shifter Joseph Buquet who swore he had met him in the cellars. The new managers laugh off his letters, his demand for a salary and for his private box. Then strange things start to happen on stage and off.

Meanwhile Christine Daaé, a shy young Swedish singer, suddenly triumphs in a gala night and says she is taught by an invisible "Angel of Music". Raoul, the young Vicomte de Chagny, who loved her as a child, is determined to find out whose voice is behind the walls of her dressing room.

Gaston Leroux, a former crime reporter, tells the story like an investigation. His 1910 novel inspired countless films and Andrew Lloyd Webber's record-breaking musical.

Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in French. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:

• a natural translation of that exact sentence,
• a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
• the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
• all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.

It's marked intermediate: comfortable once everyday French feels familiar, with the harder sentences one tap away. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.