Brigadier Gerard is the comedic hero of a series of 17 historical short stories, a play, and a major character in a novel by the British writer Arthur Conan Doyle.
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14 Facts About Brigadier Gerard
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Brigadier Etienne Gerard is a Hussar officer in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Brigadier Gerard is not entirely wrong, since he displays notable bravery on many occasions, but his self-satisfaction undercuts this quite often.
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Doyle, in making his hero a vain, and often rather uncomprehending, Frenchman, was able to satirise both the stereotypical English view of the French and – by presenting them from Brigadier Gerard's baffled point of view – English manners and attitudes.
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Brigadier Gerard tells the stories from the point of view of an old man now living in retirement in Paris.
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In "How the Brigadier Rode to Minsk" he attends a review of troops about to depart for the Crimea, and this is the last identifiable date in his life, although "The Last Adventure of the Brigadier" has a still later setting, with Gerard about to return to his Gascon homeland.
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Brigadier Gerard first joins the 2nd Hussars – the Hussars of Chamberan – around 1799, serving as a lieutenant and junior captain.
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Brigadier Gerard speaks somewhat idiosyncratic English, having learned it from an officer of the Irish Brigade of the French Army.
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Brigadier Gerard is awarded the Grand-Cross of the Legion d'honneur by Napoleon in 1814.
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Marbot's memoirs depicting the Napoleonic age of warfare had become very popular prior to the publication of Doyle's series about Brigadier Gerard and were praised by Doyle as being the best soldier's book known to him.
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Fictional Brigadier Gerard is not to be confused with the real Napoleonic officer Etienne Maurice Brigadier Gerard, who rose to become a Marshal and later Prime Minister of France.
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In 1915 a silent film Brigadier Gerard was made, directed by Bert Haldane with Lewis Waller in the title role.
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French film Un drame sous Napoleon, directed by Brigadier Gerard Bourgeois, was a film version of the short novel Uncle Bernac.
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In 1970 The Adventures of Brigadier Gerard was directed by Jerzy Skolimowski with Peter McEnery playing Brigadier Gerard.
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