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| rdfs:comment | - He played senior hockey in Montreal for the Montreal Canadiens (Senior), Montreal St Francois Xavier, Montreal Nationale, and Lafontaine Bleus from 1930 to 1934. He also played 8 games for the minor pro Quebec Castors in 1933-34. In 1934-35 Leroux turned pro with the Cleveland Falcons. The Canadiens signed him at the end of the season and he played 2 games for them in 1935-36, while spending most of his time in the minor pros. After that season Leroux returned to senior hockey and played for the Sherbrooke Red Raiders until he retired in 1939.
- Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (6 May 1868[1] – 15 April 1927) 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, notably the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney; and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical.
- Gaston Leroux was the author of The Mystery of the Yellow Room and The Phantom of the Opera.
- Leroux was born in Paris and attended school in Normandy. He studied Law at university in Paris and graduated in 1889. In 1890, he began writing on legal affairs for the newspaper L'Echo de Paris and also served as the paper's drama critic. His career as a journalist progressed when he became international correspondent for another Parisian newspaper, Le Matin. Leroux covered the Russian Revolution of 1905 for the newspaper. Leroux died in the city of Nice, on the south coast of France.
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| abstract | - He played senior hockey in Montreal for the Montreal Canadiens (Senior), Montreal St Francois Xavier, Montreal Nationale, and Lafontaine Bleus from 1930 to 1934. He also played 8 games for the minor pro Quebec Castors in 1933-34. In 1934-35 Leroux turned pro with the Cleveland Falcons. The Canadiens signed him at the end of the season and he played 2 games for them in 1935-36, while spending most of his time in the minor pros. After that season Leroux returned to senior hockey and played for the Sherbrooke Red Raiders until he retired in 1939.
- Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (6 May 1868[1] – 15 April 1927) 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, notably the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney; and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical.
- Gaston Leroux was the author of The Mystery of the Yellow Room and The Phantom of the Opera.
- Leroux was born in Paris and attended school in Normandy. He studied Law at university in Paris and graduated in 1889. In 1890, he began writing on legal affairs for the newspaper L'Echo de Paris and also served as the paper's drama critic. His career as a journalist progressed when he became international correspondent for another Parisian newspaper, Le Matin. Leroux covered the Russian Revolution of 1905 for the newspaper. In 1907, Leroux left journalism and began writing fiction. His first novel was a mystery called La Mystere de la chambre jaune (The Mystery of the Yellow Room). The main character in the novel is an amateur detective named Joseph Roulebaille. Leroux went on to write six more novels that featured Roulebaille. He is considered a pioneer of detective fiction in French, much as Edgar Allan Poe is considered a pioneer of English-language detective fiction. Leroux died in the city of Nice, on the south coast of France.
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