Tristan Bernard (7 September 1866 – 7 December 1947) was a French playwright, novelist, journalist and lawyer. ==Life== Born Paul Bernard into a Jewish family in Besançon, Doubs, Franche-Comté, France, he was the son of an architect.
In 1888 was born his son Jean-Jacques Bernard, also a dramatist. He studied law, but after his military service he started his career as the manager of an aluminium smelter.
In the 1890s he also managed the Vélodrome de la Seine at Levallois-Perret and the Vélodrome Buffalo, whose events were an integral part of Parisian life, being regularly attended by personalities such as Toulouse-Lautrec.
He reputedly introduced the bell to signify the last lap of a race. After his first publication in La Revue Blanche in 1891, he became increasingly a writer and adopted the pseudonym Tristan.
Jacques Feyder and Raymond Bernard, 1917) L'Homme inusable (dir.
Raymond Bernard, 1923) Décadence et grandeur (dir.
Raymond Bernard, 1923) The Fortune (dir.
He died in Paris four years later, allegedly of the results of his internment, and was buried in Passy cemetery. ==Legacy== A theater in Paris that he ran briefly as the "Théâtre Tristan-Bernard" in 1931 was later given the name permanently to honor him. His descendants have achieved some fame.
In 1932, he was a candidate for the Académie Française, but was not elected, receiving only 2 votes of a total of 39. ==Drancy== He was interned during World War II at the Drancy deportation camp.
André Berthomieu, 1938) Girls in Distress (dir.
Pabst, 1939) ==References== ==External links== 1866 births 1947 deaths People from Besançon 19th-century French journalists 20th-century French journalists French Jews French people of World War II 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights 20th-century French dramatists and playwrights 19th-century French novelists 20th-century French novelists 20th-century French male writers Burials at Passy Cemetery Lycée Condorcet alumni French male non-fiction writers
Public protest of his imprisonment caused his release in 1943.
Tristan Bernard (7 September 1866 – 7 December 1947) was a French playwright, novelist, journalist and lawyer. ==Life== Born Paul Bernard into a Jewish family in Besançon, Doubs, Franche-Comté, France, he was the son of an architect.
His son Raymond Bernard became an influential French filmmaker (using as scripts a number of works authored by his father) while his son Jean-Jacques Bernard published a memoir of his father in 1955 titled Mon père Tristan Bernard (My Father, Tristan Bernard).
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