Tragic Romance: The Secrets Of The Paris Opera:

The Phantom of the Opera is a novel by a French author. It was first published as a serial in Le Gaulois from 23 September 1909 to 8 January 1910 and was released in volume form in late March 1910 by Pierre Lafitte. The novel is partly inspired by historical events at the Paris Opera during the nineteenth century, and by an apocryphal tale concerning the use of a former ballet pupil's skeleton in Carl Maria von Weber's 1841 production of Der Freischütz. It has been successfully adapted into...