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Paul Bernard
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Sept. 7, 1866, Besançon, France
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Dec. 7, 1947, Paris (aged 81)
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Tristan Bernard (born Sept. 7, 1866, Besançon, France—died Dec. 7, 1947, Paris) was a French playwright, novelist, journalist, and lawyer who wrote for the théâtre de boulevard, a genre meant to entertain middle-class Parisian audiences on Sunday afternoons.

Bernard’s merit consisted in limiting his literary ambitions to his capabilities. His works were characterized by a tone of light cynicism and a cross fire of lively dialogue, together with a keen insight into the foibles of his bourgeois audiences. Among Bernard’s most successful plays were L’Anglais tel qu’on le parle (1899; “English As It Is Spoken”), Triplepatte (1905, written in collaboration with André Godfernaux and adapted by Clyde Fitch as Toddles), and Monsieur Codomat (1907). He also wrote several humorous novels, including Les Mémoires d’un jeune homme rangé (1899; “Memoirs of a Proper Young Man”) and La Féerie bourgeoise (1924; “The Bourgeois Fairyland”).

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