His most important journalism came when he began working as an international correspondent for the Paris newspaper Le Matin. Then in 1890, he began working as a court reporter and theater critic for L'Écho de Paris. He inherited millions of francs and lived wildly until he nearly reached bankruptcy. Leroux went to school in Normandy and studied law in Paris, graduating in 1889. It was also the basis of the 1990 novel Phantom by Susan Kay. 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. Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux was a French journalist and author of detective fiction. This chapter provides explanations for several enigmas that have puzzled readers since Leroux’s first edition, and it offers a fascinating glimpse into the writing process of one of France’s literary icons. For the first time, the text of “The Magic Envelope” has been translated into English so that fans of The Phantom of the Opera can read this forgotten gem. Since the feuilleton has never been translated, few people apart from the most dedicated Phantom enthusiasts are familiar with this lost chapter.
Leroux decided to omit this chapter from his first edition, and so it only appeared in Le Gaulois. In the feuilleton of Le Fantôme de l’Opéra, Gaston Leroux wrote a chapter called “L’enveloppe magique” (“The Magic Envelope”).
Between the newspaper printing and the first edition, it was common for chapters to be added, rewritten, or removed as part of the editing process. Many authors of the day published their novels section by section in newspapers to gain readership and to work out ideas before the publication of the first edition. This type of serialized publication, in France called a “feuilleton,” was common from the middle of the 19th century through the beginning of the 20th century.
On September 23, 1909, the Parisian daily newspaper, Le Gaulois, published its first installment of Gaston Leroux’s Le Fantôme de l’Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera).
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