Jean Bommart | |
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| Born | 12 September 1894 Douai, France |
| Died | 25 December 1979 (aged 85) Paris, France |
| Alma mater | HEC Paris |
| Occupation | Crime writer |
Jean Bommart (Douai, September 12, 1894 - Paris, December 25, 1979) was a French writer of detective novels and spy novels.
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Bommart completed a year of study in medicine and another in law at university, but the World War I broke out and he joined the French army in Verdun. He was seriously injured there on February 21, 1916.
After the war, he studied at HEC Paris. A journalist for the Havas agency in Belgrade in 1921, he led a diplomatic career for a time and traveled to several Eastern European countries.
Back in France, he worked in various small jobs, then became a bank employee. After drinking a glass of contaminated water in a pastry shop in the Bourse district, he became seriously ill. Bedridden for three years following this food poisoning, he began to write, drawing inspiration from his memories of action in the secret war, encouraged by the writer Benjamin Crémieux.
He quickly achieved success with his character Captain Sauvin, aka the Chinese Fish. A relaxed hero with an unattractive physique, he is not a stunner of beautiful spies, but a clever secret agent, skilled in disguise. Timeless, it appears in all theaters of operations for several decades during world conflicts. We find him both in Hitler's bunker at the fall of Berlin in early May 1945 and unveiling the very first arrival of Soviet missiles in Cuba in 1963. Michel Simon in The Silent Battle of Pierre Billon in 1937 and Rex Harrison in The Silent Battle by Herbert Mason in 1939 played Jacques Sauvin on screen.
Jean Bommart also wrote classic detective novels, two science fiction novels (under the pseudonym Kemmel) and various other works. He was interested in cinema as a screenwriter or dialogue writer.
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