Pierre Lafitte (journalist)
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Pierre Antoine Baptiste René Lafitte was a French journalist, publisher and editor born 3 May 1872 in Bordeaux and died 13 December 1938 in Paris. He innovated in illustrated press and popular novel f
Photogravure portrait of Pierre Lafitte in 1908
Femina magazine, cover, 1901
Pierre Lafitte et his wife, on a motor-driven quadricycle. Photo: Jules Beau (c.1898-1899).
The Phantom of the Opera is a Gothic horror novel by French author Gaston Leroux. It was first published as a serial in Le Gaulois from 23 September 1909 to 8 January 1910, and was released in volume
Pierre Lafitte (journalist)
…of paintings in colour, and the "Les Grands Hommes" collection under the direction of Jules Clarétie. PAGE XXI IN February 1910, Lafitte published Le Fantôme de l'Opéra in a 510 page volume of twenty-seven numbered chapters with five illustrations by André Castaigne. In 1904, he co-founded with Hachette the Femina-Vie…
One of the five watercolors by André Castaigne illustrating the first American edition of the Phantom of the Opera (1911)
Gaston Leroux Le Fantôme de l'Opéra