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Rouletabille - Les aventures complètes
Joseph Rouletabille, le célèbre reporter / détective / aventurier imaginé par Gaston Leroux à savourer dans ses huit aventures: Le mystère de la chambre jaune, le parfum de la dame en noir, Rouletabille chez le Tsar, le château noir, les étranges noces de Rouletabille, Rouletabille chez Krupp, le crime de Rouletabille et Rouletabille chez les Bohémiens.
Enfant surdoué pour les mathématiques et la logique, Joseph Joséphin se fait connaître lorsqu'il retrouve "le pied gauche de la rue Oberkampf" et qu'il résoud ce mystère à la barbe de la police, alors qu'il n'a pas 18 ans. Rapidement surnommé Rouletabille par ses collègues, en raison de sa tête ronde et rougeaude, Joseph s'appuie sur ses capacités déductives, qu'il dénomme "le bon bout de la raison".
Enfant surdoué pour les mathématiques et la logique, Joseph Joséphin se fait connaître lorsqu'il retrouve "le pied gauche de la rue Oberkampf" et qu'il résoud ce mystère à la barbe de la police, alors qu'il n'a pas 18 ans. Rapidement surnommé Rouletabille par ses collègues, en raison de sa tête ronde et rougeaude, Joseph s'appuie sur ses capacités déductives, qu'il dénomme "le bon bout de la raison".
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First published February 12, 2012
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Gaston Leroux
1,061 books1,082 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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