Background
Born Paul Bernard into a Jewish family on September 7, 1866 in Besançon, Doubs, Franche-Comté, France, he was the son of an architect.
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Born Paul Bernard into a Jewish family on September 7, 1866 in Besançon, Doubs, Franche-Comté, France, he was the son of an architect.
He attended the Lycée Condorcet and later studied law, although he never practiced it.
After a short period in business, he came to Paris where he contributed humorous pieces and sports articles to the Revue Blanche. His writings on sports led to his being named manager of the Vélodrome Buffalo, a bicycle racetrack. Bernard was a boxing enthusiast and later became one of the early supporters of the automobile, writing extensively and humorously about it. In 1895 he had his first play produced, Les Pieds nickelés ("Reluctant Feet"). Bernard scored his first outstanding successes in 1899, on the stage, with L'Anglais tel qu'on le parle ("English as It Is Spoken"), a one-act farce, which has been repeatedly revived since; and, with a novel, Les Mémoires d'un jeune homme rangé ("The Memoirs of an Orderly Young Man"), which appeared first in installments in Le Journal and then in book form. From that time on, he produced a long series of comedies, farces, librettos of operettas, and dramas, in several of which he appeared as an actor. Triplepatte (1905) ("Three-Feet") was originally a tragedy of an indecisive man by Andre Godfernaux, but Bernard rewrote it as a comedy. Bernard's stage works have often been compared to Molière's, while the humor of his novels has been likened to that of Dickens. Bernard died in Paris, December 7, 1947.
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