Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (6 May 1868 – 15 April 1927) was a French journalist and author of detective fiction .
17-4133: For other uses, see Gaston (disambiguation) . Gaston Pronunciation English: / ˈ ɡ æ s t ən / Gender Male Origin Word/name French Other names Related names Gastão Gaston is a masculine given name of French origin and a surname . The name "Gaston" may refer to: People [ edit ] First name [ edit ] Gaston I, Count of Foix (1287–1315) Gaston II, Count of Foix (1308–1343) Gaston III, Count of Foix (1331–1391) Gaston IV, Count of Foix (1422–1472) Gaston I, Viscount of Béarn (died circa 980) Gaston II, Viscount of Béarn (circa 951 – 1012) Gaston III, Viscount of Béarn (died on or before 1045) Gaston IV, Viscount of Béarn (died 1131) Gaston V, Viscount of Béarn (died 1170) Gaston VI, Viscount of Béarn (1173–1214) Gaston VII, Viscount of Béarn (1225–1290) Gaston of Foix, Prince of Viana (1444–1470) Gaston, Count of Marsan (1721–1743) Gaston, Duke of Orléans (1608–1660), French nobleman Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962), French philosopher Gaston Balande (1880–1971), French painter and illustrator Gaston Browne (born 1967), Antiguan politician and Prime Minister Gaston Caperton (born 1940), American politician Gaston Chevrolet (1892–1920), French racecar driver and automobile manufacturer Gaston Cornereau (1888–1944), French fencer Gaston Couté (1880–1911), French poet and singer Gaston d'Orléans (1842–1922), French prince and military commander Gaston de Foix, Count of Candale (1448–1500), French nobleman Gastón de Peralta (1510–1587), Spanish nobleman Gaston Defferre (1910–1986), French politician Gaston Doumergue (1863–1937), French politician and President Gaston Alonzo Edwards (1875–1943), American architect, educator Gastón Etlis (born 1974), Argentine tennis player Gaston Eyskens (1905–1988), Belgian politician and Prime Minister Gaston Flosse (born 1931), French Polynesian politician and President Gaston Gallimard (1881–1975), French publisher Gaston Gambor (1948-2019), Central African basketball player, military officer, and politician Gastón Gaudio (born 1978), Argentine tennis player Gaston Glock (1929–2023), Austrian engineer Gaston Gradis (1889–1968), French businessman and explorer Gaston Julia (1893–1978), French mathematician Gaston Leroux (1868–1927), French writer Gaston Monnerville (1897–1991), French politician Gaston Michel (1856–1921), French actor Gaston Nguérékata (born 1953), Central African mathematician Gaston Palewski (1901–1984), French politician Gaston Paris (1839–1903), French writer Gastón Ramírez (born 1990), Uruguayan footballer Gaston Rébuffat (1921–1985), French alpinist Gaston Salmon (1878–1917), Belgian Olympic champion fencer Gastón Solnicki (born 1978), Argentine film director Gaston Thorn (1928–2007), Luxembourg politician and Prime Minister Gaston Tong Sang (born 1949), French Polynesian politician and President Surname [ edit ] A. G. Gaston (1892–1996), American businessman Bill Gaston (born 1953), Canadian writer Cito Gaston (born 1944), American baseball player and manager Donald Gaston (1934-2013), American professional wrestler Fannie Gaston-Johansson (1938–2023), American professor of nursing Hugo Gaston (born 2000), French tennis player Iñaki Gastón (born 1963), Spanish cyclist Isis Gaston (born 2000), American rapper known as Ice Spice Joe Gaston (1926–2018), British politician Joseph P. Gaston (1833–1913), American railroad executive Justin Gaston (born 1988), American singer-songwriter and actor Lloyd Gaston (1929–2006), Canadian theologian and professor Mack C. Gaston (born 1940), Admiral United States Navy, First Black Admiral NTC Great Lakes, member of
34-576: A lawyer in Caen (graduating in 1889), He inherited millions of francs and lived wildly until he nearly reached bankruptcy. In 1890, 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 1893. He was present at, and covered, the 1905 Russian Revolution . He left journalism in 1907, after returning from covering
51-572: A town Gaston County, North Carolina Gaston, Oregon , a city Gaston, South Carolina , a town Gaston, West Virginia , an unincorporated community A variant spelling of Gastun, present-day Bagras , a Crusader castle in Turkey Gaston (crater) , an impact crater on the Moon Other uses [ edit ] Gaston (comics) , a Belgian comic strip by André Franquin Gaston (climbing) ,
68-544: 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 . Leroux's contribution to French detective fiction
85-562: 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). Balaoo followed in 1911, which was made into a film several times (in 1913, 1927 and 1942). Leroux
102-412: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Gaston (disambiguation) Gaston is a masculine given name or surname. It may also refer to: Places [ edit ] Gaston, California , an unincorporated community Fort Gaston , California, founded in 1859, abandoned in 1892 Gaston, Indiana , a town Gaston, North Carolina ,
119-399: 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
136-737: The Gaston comics by André Franquin Gaston, fictional character in Colette's 1944 novella Gigi Gaston , the main antagonist in the 1991 film Beauty and the Beast and its 2017 remake Gaston the Ladybird, a fictional character in Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom Gaston, one of the main characters from the Alphonse and Gaston comic strip Gaston, a rabbit villager in
153-705: The Secretary of the Navy's Advisory Subcommittee on Naval History Marilyn Gaston (born 1939), American physician Michael Gaston (born 1962), American actor Nicola Gaston (born 1980), New Zealand scientist Victor Gaston (born 1943), American politician William Gaston (1778–1844), American politician and jurist William Gaston (Massachusetts politician) (1820–1894), American politician William H. Gaston (1840–1927), American landowner Yves Gaston (1806–1863), French-Filipino businessman Fictional [ edit ] Gaston Lagaffe, fictional character in
170-483: 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 . His 1907 novel The Mystery of the Yellow Room is one of the most celebrated locked room mysteries . Leroux
187-635: The climbing technique named after Gaston Rébuffat Gaston (seal) , a brown fur seal that escaped from the Prague Zoo during the 2002 European floods Gaston College , a community college in North Carolina "Gaston" (song) , a song from Disney's Beauty and the Beast Tropical Storm Gaston , a number of named tropical cyclones Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
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#1732852506977204-562: The lead role. 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
221-602: 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
238-501: The title Gaston . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gaston_(disambiguation)&oldid=1162599380 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Gaston Leroux In
255-635: The video game series Animal Crossing See also [ edit ] Gaston (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Name list This page or section lists people that share the same given name or the same family name . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gaston&oldid=1259443920 " Categories : Given names Surnames Masculine given names French masculine given names Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
272-708: 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 Normandy. After schooling in Normandy and studying as
289-616: Was made a Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur in 1909. He died at age 58 in Nice, France, in 1927. 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. 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
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