Leroux was born in Paris in 1868, the illegitimate 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 as having been the official playmate of Prince Philippe, Count of Paris at the College d'Eu in Normany.[1][2] After studying as a lawyer in Caen, he worked as a correspondent small newspapers before eventually becoming a full-time reporter for the Paris newspaper Le Matin in 1893. He was present at, and covered, the 1905 Russian Revolution.
Another case at which he was present involved the investigation and in-depth coverage of the former Paris Opera (presently housing the Paris Ballet). The basement contained a cell that held prisoners of the Paris Commune.
He left journalism in 1907, after returning from covering a volcanic eruption and being immediately sent on another assignment without vacation time, and began writing fiction. In 1919, he and Arthur Bernède formed their own film company, Société des Cinéromans, publishing novels and turning them into films. He first wrote a mystery novel titled Le mystère de la chambre jaune (1907; English title: The Mystery of the Yellow Room), starring the amateur detective Joseph Rouletabille.[3] Leroux's contribution to French detective fiction is considered a parallel to those of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the United Kingdom and Edgar Allan Poe in the United States.
Leroux published his most famous work, The Phantom of the Opera, as a serial in 1909 and 1910, and as a book in 1910 (with an English translation appearing in 1911).[4]Balaoo followed in 1911, which was made into a film several times (in 1913, 1927 and 1942).
Leroux married twice, first to Marie Lefranc from whom he separated in 1902. Following his separation, he then lived with Jeanne Cayatte from Lorraine, with whom he had a son, Gaston, nicknamed Milinkij, and daughter Madeleine; they married in 1917 after Lefranc's death.[1][2] In 1918, he founded a film production company, Société des Cinéromans with René Navarre and debuted two films Tue-la-Mort and Il etait deux petits enfants, in which his daughter played the lead role.[5]
1921 - Le crime de Rouletabille (The Crime of Rouletabille; English translation: The Slave Bangle, 1925; The Phantom Clue, 1926, translated by Hannaford Bennett)
1922 - Rouletabille chez les Bohémiens (Rouletabille and the Gypsies; English translation: The Sleuth Hound [UK], 1926; The Octopus of Paris [US], 1927, translated by Hannaford Bennett)
Chéri Bibi
Première Aventures de Chéri-Bibi (1913, English translations: The Floating Prison [UK] and Wolves of the Sea [US], Translated by Hannaford Bennett in 1923)
Chéri-Bibi et Cécily (1916, English translations: Missing Men: The Return of Cheri-Bibi [US], Cheri-Bibi and Cecily [UK], 1923, translated by Hannaford Bennett)
Nouvelles Aventures de Chéri-Bibi (1921, English translations: Part I - The Dark Road, 1924; Part II - The Dancing Girl [UK], Nomads of the Night [US], Translated by Hannaford Bennett 1925)
Le Coup d'État de Chéri-Bibi (1926, English translation: The New Idol, Translated by Hannaford Bennett 1928)
Other novels
Still of Lon Chaney in The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Poster of the film adaptation of Balaoo in 1913
La double vie de Théophraste Longuet (1903, English translations: The Double Life, 1909, translated by John E. Kearney; The Man with the Black Feather, 1912, translated by Edgar Jepson)
Le roi mystère (1908)
Le fauteuil hanté (1909, English translation: The Haunted Chair, 1931)
Un homme dans la nuit (1910)
La reine de Sabbat (1910, English translations: Part I as The Midnight Lady [UK], 1930; Part II as The Missing Archduke [UK], 1931)
L' épouse du soleil (1912, English translation: The Bride of the Sun, 1915)
La colonne infernale (1916)
Confitou (1916)
L' homme qui revient de loin (1916, English translation: The Man who Came Back from the Dead, 1916)
Le capitaine Hyx (1917, English translation: The Amazing Adventures of Carolus Herbert, 1922, translated by Hannaford Bennett)
La bataille invisible (1917, English translation: The Veiled Prisoner [UK], 1923, translated by Hannaford Bennett)
Tue-la-mort (1920, English translation: The Masked Man, 1929)
Le coeur cambriolé (1920, English translation: The Burgled Heart, 1925; The New Terror, 1926)
Le sept de trèfle (1921)
La poupée sanglante (1923, English translations: The Kiss That Killed, 1934, translated by Hannaford Bennett)
La machine à assassiner (1923, English translation: The Machine to Kill, 1934)
Les ténébreuses: La fin d'un monde & du sang sur la Néva (1924)
Hardis-Gras ou le fils des trois pères (1924, English translation: The Son of 3 Fathers, 1927, translated by Hannaford Bennett)
La Farouche Aventure (serialized in "Le Journal" as La Coquette punie, 1924; English translation: The Adventures of a Coquette, 1926, translated by Hannaford Bennett)
La Mansarde en or (1925)
Les Mohicans de Babel (1926)
Mister Flow (1927, English translation: Part I as The Man of a Hundred Faces [USA] and The Queen of Crime [UK], 1930; Part II as Lady Helena, or The Mysterious Lady [USA], 1931)
Les Chasseurs de danses (1927)
Pouloulou (1990, posthumous)
Short stories
Gaston Leroux's "Not'olympe" was translated into English as "The Mystery of the Four Husbands" and published in the December 1929 issue of Weird Tales.
1887 - "Le petit marchand de pommes de terre frites"
1902 - "Les trois souhaits"
1907 - "Baïouchki baïou"
1908 - "L'homme qui a vu le diable" (English translation: "In Letters of Fire", 1908)
1911 - "Le dîner des bustes" (English translation: "A Terrible Tale", 1925)[4]
1912 - "La hache d'or" (English translation: "The Gold Axe", 1925)
1924 - "Le Noël du petit Vincent-Vincent" (English translation: "The Crime on Christmas Night", 1930)
1924 - "La femme au collier de velours" (English translation: "The Woman with the Velvet Collar", first English publication in Weird Tales, October 1929)
1924 - "Not'olympe" (English translation: "The Mystery of the Four Husbands", first English publication in Weird Tales, December 1929)
1925 - "L'Auberge épouvantable" (English translation: "The Inn of Terror", first English publication In Weird Tales, August 1929, Translated by Mildred Gleason prochet)
Tue la mort [fr], directed by René Navarre (1920, serial with 12 episodes)
Le Sept de trèfle [fr], directed by René Navarre (1921, serial with 12 episodes)
Il était deux petits enfants, directed by Lino Manzoni (1922)[5]
Misattributions
The Gaston Leroux Bedside Companion, an anthology published in 1980 and edited by Peter Haining, as well as the Haining-edited The Real Opera Ghost and Other Tales By Gaston Leroux (Sutton, 1994), include a story attributed to Leroux entitled The Waxwork Museum. A foreword alleges that the translation by Alexander Peters first appeared in Fantasy Book in 1969 (but no original French publication date is given). Neither "Alexander Peters" nor "Fantasy Book" appear to exist, and the text of the story is, in fact, a word-for-word copy of the story Figures de cire by Andre de Lorde which was published as Waxworks in the 1933 anthology Terrors: A Collection of Uneasy Tales, edited (anonymously) by Charles Birkin. The confusion has sometimes caused Leroux to be erroneously credited with the stories from the 1933 film Mystery of the Wax Museum, the 1953 film House of Wax (both of which were based on a story by Charles S. Belden) or, particularly, the 1997 Italian film Wax Mask (for example, in Troy Howarth's Splintered Visions: Lucio Fulci and His Films). No such story by Leroux exists, though some confusion may have been the result of chapter IX in Leroux's novel La double vie de Théophraste Longuet, which is entitled, Le masque de cire (translated as The Wax Mask).
References
^ abHogle, J. (2016-04-30). The Undergrounds of the Phantom of the Opera: Sublimation and the Gothic in Leroux's Novel and its Progeny. Springer. pp. 61–62. ISBN978-1-137-11288-0.
^ abPellegrini, Laura Paola (2012-04-27). Le Fantôme de l'Opéra by Gaston Leroux: The novel's evolution and its theatrical and cinematic adaptations in the twentieth century. LED Edizioni Universitarie. pp. 20–28. ISBN978-88-7916-584-6.
^Hall, Ann C. (2009-08-11). Phantom Variations: The Adaptations of Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera, 1925 to the Present. McFarland. p. 8. ISBN978-0-7864-5377-1.
^ abWildgen, Kathryn E. (2001-01-01). "Making the Shadow Conscious: The Enduring Legacy of Gaston Leroux". Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures. 55 (3): 155–167. doi:10.1080/00397700109598539. ISSN 0039-7709. S2CID 192015448.
^ abDUBOURG, M (1981). "Gaston Leroux journaliste parisien, journaliste et parisien in G. Leroux". Gaston Leroux Journaliste Parisien, Journaliste et Parisien in G. Leroux. 59 (626–627): 56–65.
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For other people named Gaston Leroux see Gaston Leroux disambiguation Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux 6 May 1868 15 April 1927 was a French journalist and author of detective fiction Gaston LerouxLeroux in 1907BornGaston Louis Alfred Leroux 1868 05 06 6 May 1868Paris FranceDied15 April 1927 1927 04 15 aged 58 Nice FranceOccupationJournalist authorNationalityFrenchNotable worksThe Phantom of the OperaIn the English speaking world he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera French Le Fantome de l Opera 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 His 1907 novel The Mystery of the Yellow Room is one of the most celebrated locked room mysteries Contents 1 Life and career 2 Personal life 3 Novels 3 1 The Adventures of Rouletabille 3 2 Cheri Bibi 3 3 Other novels 3 4 Short stories 3 5 Plays 4 Filmography 4 1 Screenwriter 5 Misattributions 6 References 7 External linksLife and career EditLeroux was born in Paris in 1868 the illegitimate 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 as having been the official playmate of Prince Philippe Count of Paris at the College d Eu in Normany 1 2 After studying as a lawyer in Caen he worked as a correspondent small newspapers before eventually becoming a full time reporter for the Paris newspaper Le Matin in 1893 He was present at and covered the 1905 Russian Revolution Another case at which he was present involved the investigation and in depth coverage of the former Paris Opera presently housing the Paris Ballet The basement contained a cell that held prisoners of the Paris Commune He left journalism in 1907 after returning from covering a volcanic eruption and being immediately sent on another assignment without vacation time and began writing fiction In 1919 he and Arthur Bernede formed their own film company Societe des Cineromans publishing novels and turning them into films He first wrote a mystery novel titled Le mystere de la chambre jaune 1907 English title The Mystery of the Yellow Room starring the amateur detective Joseph Rouletabille 3 Leroux s contribution to French detective fiction is considered a parallel to those of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the United Kingdom and Edgar Allan Poe in the United States Leroux published his most famous work The Phantom of the Opera as a serial in 1909 and 1910 and as a book in 1910 with an English translation appearing in 1911 4 Balaoo followed in 1911 which was made into a film several times in 1913 1927 and 1942 Leroux was made a Chevalier de la Legion d honneur in 1909 He died at age 58 in Nice France in 1927 Personal life EditLeroux married twice first to Marie Lefranc from whom he separated in 1902 Following his separation he then lived with Jeanne Cayatte from Lorraine with whom he had a son Gaston nicknamed Milinkij and daughter Madeleine they married in 1917 after Lefranc s death 1 2 In 1918 he founded a film production company Societe des Cineromans with Rene Navarre and debuted two films Tue la Mort and Il etait deux petits enfants in which his daughter played the lead role 5 Novels EditThe Adventures of Rouletabille Edit 1907 Le mystere de la chambre jaune English translation The Mystery of the Yellow Room 1907 Rouletabille and The Mystery of the Yellow Room 2009 translated by Jean Marc Lofficier amp Randy Lofficier ISBN 978 1 934543 60 3 1908 Le parfum de la dame en noir English translation The Perfume of the Lady in Black 1908 1913 Rouletabille chez le Tsar Rouletabille and the Tsar English translation The Secret of the Night 1914 1914 Rouletabille a la guerre Rouletabille at War consisting of Le chateau noir The Black Castle Les etranges noces de Rouletabille The Strange Wedding of Rouletabille 1917 Rouletabille chez Krupp English translation Rouletabille at Krupp s 2013 by Brian Stableford ISBN 978 1 61227 144 6 1921 Le crime de Rouletabille The Crime of Rouletabille English translation The Slave Bangle 1925 The Phantom Clue 1926 translated by Hannaford Bennett 1922 Rouletabille chez les Bohemiens Rouletabille and the Gypsies English translation The Sleuth Hound UK 1926 The Octopus of Paris US 1927 translated by Hannaford Bennett Cheri Bibi Edit Premiere Aventures de Cheri Bibi 1913 English translations The Floating Prison UK and Wolves of the Sea US Translated by Hannaford Bennett in 1923 Cheri Bibi et Cecily 1916 English translations Missing Men The Return of Cheri Bibi US Cheri Bibi and Cecily UK 1923 translated by Hannaford Bennett Nouvelles Aventures de Cheri Bibi 1921 English translations Part I The Dark Road 1924 Part II The Dancing Girl UK Nomads of the Night US Translated by Hannaford Bennett 1925 Le Coup d Etat de Cheri Bibi 1926 English translation The New Idol Translated by Hannaford Bennett 1928 Other novels Edit Still of Lon Chaney in The Phantom of the Opera 1925 Poster of the film adaptation of Balaoo in 1913 La double vie de Theophraste Longuet 1903 English translations The Double Life 1909 translated by John E Kearney The Man with the Black Feather 1912 translated by Edgar Jepson Le roi mystere 1908 Le fauteuil hante 1909 English translation The Haunted Chair 1931 Un homme dans la nuit 1910 La reine de Sabbat 1910 English translations Part I as The Midnight Lady UK 1930 Part II as The Missing Archduke UK 1931 Le fantome de l Opera 1910 English translation The Phantom of the Opera 1911 Balaoo 1911 English translation Balaoo 1913 L epouse du soleil 1912 English translation The Bride of the Sun 1915 La colonne infernale 1916 Confitou 1916 L homme qui revient de loin 1916 English translation The Man who Came Back from the Dead 1916 Le capitaine Hyx 1917 English translation The Amazing Adventures of Carolus Herbert 1922 translated by Hannaford Bennett La bataille invisible 1917 English translation The Veiled Prisoner UK 1923 translated by Hannaford Bennett Tue la mort 1920 English translation The Masked Man 1929 Le coeur cambriole 1920 English translation The Burgled Heart 1925 The New Terror 1926 Le sept de trefle 1921 La poupee sanglante 1923 English translations The Kiss That Killed 1934 translated by Hannaford Bennett La machine a assassiner 1923 English translation The Machine to Kill 1934 Les tenebreuses La fin d un monde amp du sang sur la Neva 1924 Hardis Gras ou le fils des trois peres 1924 English translation The Son of 3 Fathers 1927 translated by Hannaford Bennett La Farouche Aventure serialized in Le Journal as La Coquette punie 1924 English translation The Adventures of a Coquette 1926 translated by Hannaford Bennett La Mansarde en or 1925 Les Mohicans de Babel 1926 Mister Flow 1927 English translation Part I as The Man of a Hundred Faces USA and The Queen of Crime UK 1930 Part II as Lady Helena or The Mysterious Lady USA 1931 Les Chasseurs de danses 1927 Pouloulou 1990 posthumous Short stories Edit Gaston Leroux s Not olympe was translated into English as The Mystery of the Four Husbands and published in the December 1929 issue of Weird Tales 1887 Le petit marchand de pommes de terre frites 1902 Les trois souhaits 1907 Baiouchki baiou 1908 L homme qui a vu le diable English translation In Letters of Fire 1908 1911 Le diner des bustes English translation A Terrible Tale 1925 4 1912 La hache d or English translation The Gold Axe 1925 1924 Le Noel du petit Vincent Vincent English translation The Crime on Christmas Night 1930 1924 La femme au collier de velours English translation The Woman with the Velvet Collar first English publication in Weird Tales October 1929 1924 Not olympe English translation The Mystery of the Four Husbands first English publication in Weird Tales December 1929 1925 L Auberge epouvantable English translation The Inn of Terror first English publication In Weird Tales August 1929 Translated by Mildred Gleason prochet Plays Edit 1908 Le Lys co author Pierre Wolff 1913 Alsace co author Lucien Camille Filmography EditFilms based on The Phantom of the Opera Films based on the Rouletabille novels Balaoo it directed by Victorin Hippolyte Jasset 1913 short film based on the novel Balaoo Cheri Bibi directed by Charles Krauss it 1914 short film based on the novel Cheri Bibi Alsace directed by Henri Pouctal 1916 based on the play Alsace L Homme qui revient de loin directed by Gaston Ravel 1917 based on the novel L Homme qui revient de loin La Nouvelle aurore directed by Edouard Emile Violet fr 1919 serial with 16 episodes based on the novel Nouvelles aventures de Cheri Bibi A halal utan directed by Alfred Deesy Hungary 1920 based on the novel L Homme qui revient de loin The Lily directed by Victor Schertzinger 1926 based on the play Le Lys The Wizard directed by Richard Rosson 1927 based on the novel Balaoo The Phantom of Paris directed by John S Robertson 1931 based on the novel Cheri Bibi et Cecily Cheri Bibi directed by Carlos F Borcosque 1931 alternative Spanish language version of The Phantom of Paris Compliments of Mister Flow directed by Robert Siodmak 1936 based on the novel Mister Flow Cheri Bibi fr directed by Leon Mathot 1938 based on the novel Cheri Bibi Dr Renault s Secret directed by Harry Lachman 1942 based on the novel Balaoo uncredited The Perfume of the Lady in Black 1949 The Man Who Returns from Afar directed by Jean Castanier fr 1950 based on the novel L Homme qui revient de loin Cheri Bibi directed by Marcello Pagliero 1955 based on the novel Cheri Bibi Il profumo della signora in nero The Perfume of the Lady in Black 1974 Italian giallo La Poupee sanglante directed by Marcel Cravenne 1976 miniseries based on the novel La poupee sanglante and its sequel La machine a assassiner The Perfume of the Lady in Black 2005 Screenwriter Edit Tue la mort fr directed by Rene Navarre 1920 serial with 12 episodes Le Sept de trefle fr directed by Rene Navarre 1921 serial with 12 episodes Il etait deux petits enfants directed by Lino Manzoni 1922 5 Misattributions EditThe Gaston Leroux Bedside Companion an anthology published in 1980 and edited by Peter Haining as well as the Haining edited The Real Opera Ghost and Other Tales By Gaston Leroux Sutton 1994 include a story attributed to Leroux entitled The Waxwork Museum A foreword alleges that the translation by Alexander Peters first appeared in Fantasy Book in 1969 but no original French publication date is given Neither Alexander Peters nor Fantasy Book appear to exist and the text of the story is in fact a word for word copy of the story Figures de cire by Andre de Lorde which was published as Waxworks in the 1933 anthology Terrors A Collection of Uneasy Tales edited anonymously by Charles Birkin The confusion has sometimes caused Leroux to be erroneously credited with the stories from the 1933 film Mystery of the Wax Museum the 1953 film House of Wax both of which were based on a story by Charles S Belden or particularly the 1997 Italian film Wax Mask for example in Troy Howarth s Splintered Visions Lucio Fulci and His Films No such story by Leroux exists though some confusion may have been the result of chapter IX in Leroux s novel La double vie de Theophraste Longuet which is entitled Le masque de cire translated as The Wax Mask References Edit a b Hogle J 2016 04 30 The Undergrounds of the Phantom of the Opera Sublimation and the Gothic in Leroux s Novel and its Progeny Springer pp 61 62 ISBN 978 1 137 11288 0 a b Pellegrini Laura Paola 2012 04 27 Le Fantome de l Opera by Gaston Leroux The novel s evolution and its theatrical and cinematic adaptations in the twentieth century LED Edizioni Universitarie pp 20 28 ISBN 978 88 7916 584 6 Hall Ann C 2009 08 11 Phantom Variations The Adaptations of Gaston Leroux s Phantom of the Opera 1925 to the Present McFarland p 8 ISBN 978 0 7864 5377 1 a b Wildgen Kathryn E 2001 01 01 Making the Shadow Conscious The Enduring Legacy of Gaston Leroux Symposium A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures 55 3 155 167 doi 10 1080 00397700109598539 ISSN 0039 7709 S2CID 192015448 a b DUBOURG M 1981 Gaston Leroux journaliste parisien journaliste et parisien in G Leroux Gaston Leroux Journaliste Parisien Journaliste et Parisien in G Leroux 59 626 627 56 65 External links Edit Wikisource has original works by or about Gaston Leroux Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gaston Leroux Works by Gaston Leroux in eBook form at Standard Ebooks Works by Gaston Leroux at Project Gutenberg Works by or about Gaston Leroux at Internet Archive Works by Gaston Leroux at LibriVox public domain audiobooks About Gaston Leroux gaston leroux net Books and Biography of Leroux Gaston Archived 2016 03 04 at the Wayback Machine readprint com in French L univers de Joseph Rouletabille rouletabille perso cegetel net Everything about Phantom legend and his creator Gaston Leroux Archived 2006 07 18 at the 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