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Le Fantôme de l'opéra
Sous les voûtes labyrinthiques du palais Garnier rôde une ombre insaisissable. On murmure qu'un fantôme hante les coulisses, impose sa volonté aux propriétaires et aux machinistes, tout en veillant d'un oeil jaloux sur la jeune cantatrice Christine Daaé. Pour elle, cette voix invisible n'est autre que l'Ange de la musique, son mentor secret, qui façonne son talent et enflamme son imagination. Mais lorsqu'entre en scène le beau Raoul de Chagny, ami d'enfance épris de Christine, la présence du Fantôme se fait plus menaçante. Entre l'amour lumineux de Raoul et la passion dévorante du Fantôme, l'Opéra devient le théâtre d'un drame où se mêlent musique, amour, jalousie et terreur.
Publié en 1910, Le Fantôme de l'Opéra est l'un des grands classiques de l'écrivain français Gaston Leroux. Son héros masqué, figure tragique et fascinante, a traversé les époques pour devenir un mythe moderne. Ce récit mêlant gothique, romance et fantastique a inspiré de nombreux films, des adaptations télévisées, d'innombrables réécritures et surtout l'une des comédies musicales les plus célèbres au monde, et continue d'envoûter des générations de lecteurs.
Le roman qui a inspiré la nouvelle adaptation française d'Alexandre Castagnetti, avec Deva Cassel et Romain Duris, en salles en 2026.
Publié en 1910, Le Fantôme de l'Opéra est l'un des grands classiques de l'écrivain français Gaston Leroux. Son héros masqué, figure tragique et fascinante, a traversé les époques pour devenir un mythe moderne. Ce récit mêlant gothique, romance et fantastique a inspiré de nombreux films, des adaptations télévisées, d'innombrables réécritures et surtout l'une des comédies musicales les plus célèbres au monde, et continue d'envoûter des générations de lecteurs.
Le roman qui a inspiré la nouvelle adaptation française d'Alexandre Castagnetti, avec Deva Cassel et Romain Duris, en salles en 2026.
356 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 7, 2026
About the author
Gaston Leroux
1,428 books1,131 followersGaston Louis Alfred Leroux 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 (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, 1910), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, such as the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical. It was also the basis of the 1990 novel Phantom by Susan Kay.
Leroux went to school in Normandy and studied law in Paris, graduating in 1889. He inherited millions of francs and lived wildly until he nearly reached bankruptcy. Then 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 1905 he was present at and covered the Russian Revolution. Another case he was present at involved the investigation and deep coverage of an opera house in Paris, later to become a ballet house. The basement consisted of a cell that held prisoners in the Paris Commune, which were the rulers of Paris through much of the Franco-Prussian war.
He suddenly left journalism in 1907, and began writing fiction. In 1909, he and Arthur Bernède formed their own film company, Société des Cinéromans to simultaneously publish novels and turn them into films. He first wrote a mystery novel entitled Le mystère de la chambre jaune (1908; The Mystery of the Yellow Room), starring the amateur detective Joseph Rouletabille. Leroux's contribution to French detective fiction is considered a parallel to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's in the United Kingdom and Edgar Allan Poe's in America. Leroux died in Nice on April 15, 1927, of a urinary tract infection.
In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, 1910), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, such as the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical. It was also the basis of the 1990 novel Phantom by Susan Kay.
Leroux went to school in Normandy and studied law in Paris, graduating in 1889. He inherited millions of francs and lived wildly until he nearly reached bankruptcy. Then 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 1905 he was present at and covered the Russian Revolution. Another case he was present at involved the investigation and deep coverage of an opera house in Paris, later to become a ballet house. The basement consisted of a cell that held prisoners in the Paris Commune, which were the rulers of Paris through much of the Franco-Prussian war.
He suddenly left journalism in 1907, and began writing fiction. In 1909, he and Arthur Bernède formed their own film company, Société des Cinéromans to simultaneously publish novels and turn them into films. He first wrote a mystery novel entitled Le mystère de la chambre jaune (1908; The Mystery of the Yellow Room), starring the amateur detective Joseph Rouletabille. Leroux's contribution to French detective fiction is considered a parallel to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's in the United Kingdom and Edgar Allan Poe's in America. Leroux died in Nice on April 15, 1927, of a urinary tract infection.
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