Gaston Leroux
Le Fantôme de l’Opéra
Paris, Pierre Lafitte & Cie, [1910].
A court reporter from 1890, Gaston Leroux drew on these years of journalism for the material of his greatest successes. Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera) is one of his most famous novels, inspired by real events that took place at the Palais Garnier. Leroux created his mysterious character, who passes himself…
