Joseph Buquet is a fictional character in The Phantom of the Opera. He is the chief stagehand at the theater who claims to have seen the Phantom Opera. He is the first to describe Erik, saying: "He is extraordinarily fine and his coat-dress hung in a skeleton frame. His eyes are so deep that you can barely see the fixed pupils. You just saw two big black holes, like. on the dead man's skull His skin, which stretched through his bones like a drum skin, is not white but a dirty yellow His nose is so little worth that you can't see that face-face, .and the absence of that nose is a horrible thing to see. All the hair he has is three or four long dark curls on his forehead and behind his ears. "