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Gaston Leroux

1868 - 1927

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Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (6 May 1868 – 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 (French: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, 1909), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, notably the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gaston Leroux has received more than 666,641 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Gaston Leroux is the 541st most popular writer (down from 485th in 2019), the 634th most popular biography from France (down from 577th in 2019) and the 96th most popular French Writer.

Gaston Leroux is most famous for writing the novel "The Phantom of the Opera."

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  • 670k

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  • 66.26

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  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.60

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  • 2.63

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Notable Works

Le parfum de la dame en noir
1908
Mystère de la chambre jaune
1908
The Phantom Of The Opera
Fiction
The classic story of a dangerous love triangle set in an 1890s Paris opera house. Rumored to be haunted, the Palais Garnier opera house in nineteenth-century Paris is the setting for this story of a dangerous love triangle involving a young Swedish soprano, her mysterious “Phantom” tutor, and her childhood friend. When Carlotta, the lead soprano, takes ill and Christine Daaé’s understudy performance is a rousing success, Vicomte Raoul de Chagny falls in love with Christine. Meanwhile, her tutor, “the Angel of Music,” whom she believes has been sent by her deceased father, is also coveting Christine’s affections. But the Angel is no phantom as everyone believes, and his fears of Christine’s rejection due to his masked disfigurement prompts him to abduct her and extract a promise of marriage born of wild jealousy. This latest addition to the Word Cloud Classic series will have you burning the candles low to reach the dark, gothic ending.
2011
The Phantom of the Opera (Fantôme de l'Opéra)
1911
The Secret of the Night
1975
Le mystère de la chambre jaune
1912

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gaston Leroux ranks 541 out of 7,302. Before him are Nathaniel Hawthorne, Kazuo Ishiguro, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Paul Claudel, T. S. Eliot, and Bai Juyi. After him are Saint Naum, Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Eugenio Montale, Frantz Fanon, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, and Gustav Meyrink.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Gaston Leroux ranks 19. Before him are Fuad I of Egypt, Arnold Sommerfeld, Florence Foster Jenkins, Peter Behrens, Theodore William Richards, and Paul Claudel. After him are Gustav Meyrink, Huo Yuanjia, Gertrude Bell, Robert Falcon Scott, Dietrich Eckart, and August Horch. Among people deceased in 1927, Gaston Leroux ranks 9. Before him are Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Willem Einthoven, Juan Gris, Ferdinand I of Romania, Albrecht Kossel, and Carlota of Mexico. After him are Andranik, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Kang Youwei, Hugo Ball, Georg Brandes, and Jerome K. Jerome.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gaston Leroux ranks 634 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis Renault (1877), Louis I, Duke of Orléans (1372), Siméon Denis Poisson (1781), Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947), Léon Walras (1834), and Marie François Sadi Carnot (1837). After him are Paul Doumer (1857), Albert Fert (1938), Chlodomer (495), Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741), Hugues de Payens (1074), and Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Gaston Leroux ranks 96. Before him are Anaïs Nin (1903), Alfred Jarry (1873), Camille Flammarion (1842), Marie-Antoine Carême (1784), Pierre de Ronsard (1524), and Paul Claudel (1868). After him are Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741), W. Somerset Maugham (1874), Georges Perec (1936), Ausonius (310), Ninon de l'Enclos (1620), and Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922).

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