Gaston Leroux

Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (1868 – 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, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical.
His 1907 novel The Mystery of the Yellow Room is one of the most celebrated
locked-room mysteries.

Palais Garnier

The Palais Garnier (Garnier Palace) or Opéra Garnier (Garnier Opera), is an opera
house at the Place de l'Opéra in Paris, France. It was built for the Paris Opera from
1861 to 1875 at the behest of Emperor Napoleon III. It is famously called the Palais
Garnier, for its extraordinary opulence and the architect Charles Garnier's plans and
designs. It was the primary theatre of the Paris Opera and its associated Paris Opera
Ballet until 1989, when a new opera house opened at the Place de la Bastille. The
company now uses the Palais Garnier for ballet.
The Palais Garnier is called "probably the most famous opera house in the world, a
symbol of Paris like Notre Dame Cathedral, the Louvre, or the Sacré Coeur Basilica."
Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera made it very famous,
especially, the novel's adaptations in films and the popular musical.