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Gaston Leroux
Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux was a French journalist and author of detective fiction.
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culture · French author and journalist (1868–1927) · journalist · writer · novelist · screenwriter · playwright · lawyer · also Gaston Leroux, Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux, Leroux
Born 6 May 1868 · Died 15 April 1927 · Q298827
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2024· 1 entry
Sortiraparis.com: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra: Quelle part de vérité se cache derrière la célèbre légende de Gaston Leroux?
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1980· 1 entry
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
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1969· 1 entry
(but no original French publication date is given)
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1927· 1 entry
Died 1927-04-15.
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1919· 1 entry
And Arthur Bernède formed their own film company, Société des Cinéromans, publishing novels and turning them into films
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1918· 1 entry
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
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1911· 1 entry
Which was made into a film several times (in 1913, 1927 and 1942)
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1909· 1 entry
And 1910, and as a book in 1910 (with an English translation appearing in 1911)
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1907· 1 entry
After returning from covering a volcanic eruption and being immediately sent on another assignment without vacation time, and began writing fiction
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1902· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1902).
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1890· 1 entry
Began working as a court reporter and theater critic for L'Écho de Paris
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1868· 2 entries
Born 1868-05-06.
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The illegitimate child of Marie Bidaut and Dominique Leroux, who married a month after his birth
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