Philippe de Chagny

Philippe de Chagny is one of the main male characters and deuteragonist in La Belle Mourante's series' first installment and plays part in the third installment of the Infinite Series' Rewrite The Stars.

He is the best friend of Gracelyn Monteverdi, and allegedly becomes a count after the passing of his father, taking his younger siblings under his wing. It is upon meeting Gracelyn's new mentor and caretaker that he falls out of his playboy mannerism and falls in love with the beautiful Ayden Jaubert.

Before the Opera
Philippe Gilbert de Chagny was born on September 13, 1853, in Paris, France, the eldest of four children born to Comte and Comtesse Philbert and Louise de Chagny. Being part of a noble family, Philippe's life was often dominated by the absence of his own father. Growing up Philippe had issues with his father, who had trouble expressing, seemingly, any sort of feeling, physically or verbally, as opposed to Philippe, who never failed to speak his thoughts and feelings.

Philippe grew slightly resenting the Daaé and Monteverdi families as they seemed to be all his father ever spoke about if he were not vaguely discussing his duties with his wife, Louise, who passed away upon giving birth to Philippe's younger brother, Raoul, creating a bigger strain between him and his father.

Around the time both living families came to stay with them at their summer house in 1870, however, Philippe's resentment for them, particularly Gracelyn diminished almost instantly upon finding the sense of family that had been missing among his own.

Belle
During this year, Philippe came to fall into his own duties as a Vicomte, with high encouragement from Gracelyn and her father, Francis Monteverdi