The papers of the day state that there were numbers wounded and one

killed. The chandelier had crashed down upon the head of the wretched

woman who had come to the Opera for the first time in her life, the one

whom M. Richard had appointed to succeed Mme. Giry, the ghost's

box-keeper, in her functions! She died on the spot and, the next

morning, a newspaper appeared with this heading: TWO HUNDRED KILOS ON THE HEAD OF A CONCIERGE That was her sole epitaph!




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