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{{short description|French playwright (1866–1947)}}
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[[File:Tristan_Bernard.jpg|thumb|Tristan Bernard,]]
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'''Tristan Bernard''' (7 September 1866 – 7 December 1947)<ref>''Who Was Who in the Theatre:1912–1976'', p.197 vol.1 A-C;compiled from editions published annually by John Parker – 1976 edition by Gale Research {{ISBN|0-8103-0406-6}} (UK) {{ISBN|0-273-01313-0}}.</ref> was a French playwright, novelist, journalist and lawyer.

==Life==

[[File:Eleonora Duse with Matilde Serao, Francesco Paolo and Tristan Bernard.jpg|thumb|Tristan Bernard with [[Eleonora Duse]], [[Matilde Serao]], and others, 1897. Photo by [[Giuseppe Primoli]].]]

He studied law, and after his military service, he started his career as the manager of an aluminium smelter. In the 1890s, he managed the [[Adolphe Clément#Later life|''Vélodrome de la Seine'']] at [[Levallois-Perret]] and the [[Vélodrome Buffalo]], events that were an integral part of Parisian life, being regularly attended by personalities such as [[Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec|Toulouse-Lautrec]].<ref name=Ahands/> He reputedly introduced the bell to signify the last lap of a race.<ref name=Leeds/>

He identified as an anarchist.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Charnow |first1=Sally Debra |title=Theatre, Politics, and Markets in Fin-de-Siècle Paris: Staging Modernity |date=2016 |language=en |isbn=978-1-137-05458-6 |publisher=Springer |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=CU0BDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA139 139] }}</ref>

During the Occupation Bernard was arrested in the South of France in September 1943 because he was Jewish, and sent to the [[Drancy internment camp|Drancy]] camp. Thanks to the efforts of his friends [[Sacha Guitry]] and [[Arletty]] he was released a few weeks later.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Le Camp de la mort lente |url=https://lemanuscrit.fr/livres/le-camp-de-la-mort-lente/ |access-date=2025-06-10 |website=Le Manuscrit |language=fr-FR}}</ref>

Famous for his wit, Bernard was also a [[crossword]] creator.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Andrikian |first=Yves |date=2015-08-05 |title=L'insolence rieuse de Tristan Bernard |trans-title= |url=https://www.estrepublicain.fr/edition-de-besancon/2015/08/05/l-insolence-rieuse-de-tristan-bernard |access-date=2024-09-13 |work=[[L'Est Républicain]] |language=fr-FR}}</ref>

==Works==

===Plays===
*''Les Pieds nickelés'' (1895)
*''{{Interlanguage link|L'Anglais tel qu'on le parle|fr}}'' (''French Without a Master'') (1899)
*''Triplepatte'' (with André Godfernaux, 1905)
*''[[The Brighton Twins (play)|The Brighton Twins]]'' (''Les Jumeaux de Brighton'') (1908)
*''Le Danseur inconnu'' (1909)
*''Le Costaud des épinettes'' (with Alfred Athis, 1910)
*''[[The Little Cafe (play)|The Little Cafe]]'' (''Le petit café'') (1911)
*''Les Deux Canards'' (with Alfred Athis, 1913)
*''Jeanne Doré'' (1913)
*''Coeur de lilas'' (with {{Interlanguage link|Charles-Henry Hirsch|fr}}, 1921)
*''Le Cordon bleu'' (1923)
*''Embrassez-moi'' (with [[Gustave Quinson]] and [[Yves Mirande]], 1923)

===Narrative works===
*''Vous m'en direz tant'' (1894) collaboration with Pierre Veber
*''Contes de Pantruche et d'ailleurs'' (1897)
*''Sous toutes réserves'' (1898)
*''Mémoires d'un jeune homme rangé'' (1899)
*''Un mari pacifique'' (1901)
*''Amants et voleurs'' (1905)
*''Mathilde et ses mitaines'' (1912)
*''L'Affaire Larcier'' (1924)
*''Le Voyage imprévu'' (1928)
*''Aux abois'' (1933)
*''Robin des bois'' (1935)

==Filmography==
*''Jeanne Doré'', directed by [[Louis Mercanton]] and [[René Hervil]] (1915, based on the play ''Jeanne Doré'')
*''[[The Love Cheat]]'', directed by [[George Archainbaud]] (1919, based on the play ''Le Danseur inconnu'')
*''[[The Little Cafe (1919 film)|The Little Cafe]]'', directed by [[Raymond Bernard (filmmaker)|Raymond Bernard]] (1919, based on the play ''[[The Little Cafe (play)|The Little Cafe]]'')
*''Triplepatte'', directed by [[Raymond Bernard (filmmaker)|Raymond Bernard]] (1922, based on the play ''Triplepatte'')
*''Le Costaud des épinettes'', directed by [[Raymond Bernard (filmmaker)|Raymond Bernard]] (1923, based on the play ''Le Costaud des épinettes'')
*''[[Kiss Me (1929 film)|Kiss Me]]'', directed by [[Robert Péguy]] (1929, based on the play ''Embrassez-moi'')<!--8 February 1929-->
*''[[The Unknown Dancer]]'', directed by [[René Barberis]] (1929, based on the play ''Le Danseur inconnu'')<!--29 November 1929-->
*''[[Playboy of Paris]]'', directed by [[Ludwig Berger (director)|Ludwig Berger]] (1930, based on the play ''[[The Little Cafe (play)|The Little Cafe]]'')<!--English-language version, 31 October 1930-->
**''[[The Little Cafe (1931 film)|The Little Cafe]]'', directed by [[Ludwig Berger (director)|Ludwig Berger]] (1931, based on the play ''[[The Little Cafe (play)|The Little Cafe]]'')<!--French-language version, 8 May 1931-->
*''Le Poignard malais'', directed by [[Roger Goupillières]] (1931, based on a short story)<!--30 January 1931-->
* ''[[English As It Is Spoken]]'', directed by [[Robert Boudrioz]] (1931, based on the play ''{{Interlanguage link|L'Anglais tel qu'on le parle|fr}}'')<!--12 June 1931-->
*''[[The Champion Cook]]'', directed by [[Karl Anton]] (1932, based on the play ''Le Cordon bleu'')<!--9 January 1932-->
*''[[Coeur de lilas]]'', directed by [[Anatole Litvak]] (1932, based on the play ''Coeur de lilas'')<!--13 March 1932-->
*''[[Kiss Me (1932 film)|Kiss Me]]'', directed by [[Léon Mathot]] (1932, based on the play ''Embrassez-moi'')<!--21 October 1932-->
*''Les Deux Canards'', directed by Erich Schmidt (1934, based on the play ''Les Deux Canards'')<!--19 April 1934-->
* ''[[The Slipper Episode]]'', directed by [[Jean de Limur]] (1935, based on the novel ''Le Voyage imprévu'')<!--French-language version, 3 January 1935-->
**''[[Runaway Ladies]]'', directed by [[Jean de Limur]] (1938, based on the novel ''Le Voyage imprévu'')<!--English-language version, released after three years-->
*''[[Lovers and Thieves]]'', directed by [[Raymond Bernard (filmmaker)|Raymond Bernard]] (1935, based on the play ''Le Costaud des épinettes'')<!--15 November 1935-->
*''[[The Brighton Twins]]'', directed by [[Claude Heymann]] (1936, based on the play ''[[The Brighton Twins (play)|The Brighton Twins]]'')<!--30 October 1936-->
*''{{Interlanguage link|Jeanne Doré|it}}'', directed by [[Mario Bonnard]] (Italy, 1938, based on the play ''Jeanne Doré'')
*''[[The Last Metro (1945 film)|The Last Metro]]'', directed by [[Maurice de Canonge]] (1945, based on the novel ''Mathilde et ses mitaines'')
*''{{Interlanguage link|Aux abois|fr}}'', directed by {{Interlanguage link|Philippe Collin (director)|fr|3=Philippe Collin (réalisateur)|lt=Philippe Collin}} (2005, based on the novel ''Aux abois'')

===Screenwriter===
*''{{Interlanguage link|Le Ravin sans fond|fr}}'' (dir. [[Jacques Feyder]] and [[Raymond Bernard (filmmaker)|Raymond Bernard]], 1917)
*''L'Homme inusable'' (dir. [[Raymond Bernard (filmmaker)|Raymond Bernard]], 1923)
*''Décadence et grandeur'' (dir. [[Raymond Bernard (filmmaker)|Raymond Bernard]], 1923)
*''[[The Fortune (1931 film)|The Fortune]]'' (dir. [[Jean Hémard]], 1931)
*''[[Eusèbe député]]'' (dir. [[André Berthomieu]], 1938)
*''[[Girls in Distress]]'' (dir. [[G. W. Pabst]], 1939)

==References==
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<ref name="Ahands">{{cite web| url = http://cycling.ahands.org/simpson.html| title = Cycling, A Hands, La Chaine Simpson}}</ref>

<ref name="Leeds">[http://www.ioa.leeds.ac.uk/1970s/73200.htm Leeds.ac.uk – 73.200–213 The Contribution of the Fine Arts to the Olympic Games, De Coubertin on Fine Art in the Olympic Movement] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010413051859/http://www.ioa.leeds.ac.uk/1970s/73200.htm |date=13 April 2001 }}</ref>}}

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* {{gutenberg author|55824}}
* {{Librivox author |id=14903}}
* {{IBDB name|4487}}

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