Dard, Frederic Charles Antoine

▪ 2001

      French novelist (b. June 29, 1921, Bourgoin-Jallieu, France—d. June 6, 2000, Bonnefontaine, Switz.), wrote mainly “hard-boiled” detective novels, notable for their ribald humour and their inventive, often racy, vocabulary. Although Dard wrote under several pseudonyms, more than half of his output, which totaled some 300 books, featured Paris police superintendent San-Antonio and his sidekick, Inspector Bérurier. The series included the illustrated L'histoire de France vue par San-Antonio (1965); Dictionnaire San-Antonio (1993), an extensive lexicon and glossary; and his final novel, Napoléon Pommier (2000), published shortly before his death.

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