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Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (6 May – 15 April ) 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, ), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, such as the film starring Lon Chaney; and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical.
Biography[]
Gaston Leroux was born in Paris in He went to school in Normandy and studied law in Paris, graduating in He inherited millions of francs and lived wildly until he nearly reached bankruptcy. Subsequently in , 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 , he was present at, and covered, the Russian Revolution.
Another case he was present at involved the investigation and in-depth coverage of the former Paris Opera (presently housi
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Gaston Leroux
For other people named Gaston Leroux, see Gaston Leroux (disambiguation).
French author and journalist
Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (French pronunciation:[ɡastɔ̃lwialfʁɛdləʁu]; 6 May &#;&#; 15 April ) was a French journalist and author of detective fiction.
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Life and career
[edit]Leroux was born in Paris in , the oäkta child of Marie Bidaut and Dominique Leroux, who married a month after his birth. He claimed an illustrious pedigree, including descent from William II of England (in French, Guillaume le Roux), son of William the Conqueror, and social connections such
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French mystery novelist, playwright, journalist, and a prolific feuilletonist. Gaston Leroux is best known for his Le Fant�me de l'op�ra (, The Phantom of the Opera), in which a criminally insane recluse haunts a Paris opera house, and abducts a young and beautiful singer to his cellar retreat. The novel has been a source for several films and stage adaptations, including Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version, first produced in
"The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers, or a product of the absurd and impressionable brains of the young ladies of the ballet, their mothers, the box-keepers, the cloak-room attendants or the concierge. Yes, he existed in flesh and blood, although he assumed the complete appearance of a real phantom; that is to say, of a spectral shade." ('Prologue', in The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, , p. 1)