A Propos

Le Fantôme de l'Opéra

Gaston Leroux

Publication: 1910

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A Propos Leroux:

Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (6 May 1868, Paris, France – 15 April 1927)

was a French journalist and author of detective fiction. In the English-

speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the

Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, 1910), which has been made into several

film and stage productions of the same name, such as the 1925 film starring

Lon Chaney; and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical. It was also the

basis of the 1990 novel Phantom by Susan Kay. Leroux went to school in

Normandy and studied law in Paris, graduating in 1889. He inherited

millions of francs and lived wildly until he nearly reached bankruptcy. Then

in 1890, he began working as a court reporter and theater critic for L'Écho

de Paris. His most important journalism came when he began working as an

international correspondent for the Paris newspaper Le Matin. In 1905 he

was present at and covered the Russian Revolution. Another case he was

present at involved the investigation and deep coverage of an opera house

in Paris, later to become a ballet house. The basement consisted of a cell

that held prisoners in the Paris Commune, which were the rulers of Paris

through much of the Franco-Prussian war. He suddenly left journalism in

1907, and began writing fiction. In 1909, he and Arthur Bernède formed

their own film company, Société des Cinéromans to simultaneously publish

novels and turn them into films. He first wrote a mystery novel entitled Le

mystère de la chambre jaune (1908; The Mystery of the Yellow Room),

starring the amateur detective Joseph Rouletabille. Leroux's contribution to

French detective fiction is considered a parallel to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's

in the United Kingdom and Edgar Allan Poe's in America. Leroux died in

Nice on April 15, 1927, of a urinary tract infection.

Disponible sur Feedbooks Leroux:

Le Mystère de la chambre jaune (1907)

Le Parfum de la Dame en noir (1908)

La Reine du Sabbat (1911)

Le Roi Mystère (1908)

Les Mohicans de Babel (1928)

Un homme dans la nuit (1910)

Quelques Nouvelles terrifiantes (1924)

Le Crime de Rouletabille (1921)

Les Ténébreuses - Tome I - La Fin d'un monde (1925)

Le Coup d'état de Chéri-Bibi (1925)

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À mon vieux frère Jo

Qui, sans avoir rien d’un fantôme,

n’en est pas moins comme Érik,

un Ange de la musique.

En toute affection,

GASTON LEROUX.

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