Brigadier Gerard Brigadier Gerard Brigadier Gerard is the 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. The hero, Etienne Gerard, is a Hussar officer in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Gerard's most notable attribute is his vanity – he is utterly convinced that he is the bravest soldier, greatest swordsman, most accomplished horseman and most gallant lover in all France. Gerard is not entirely wrong, since he displays notable bravery on many occasions, but his self-satisfaction undercuts this quite often. Obsessed with honour
Books for Keeps books: Books for Keeps Books for Keeps is a British online magazine covering children's books. The magazine launched in 1980 and includes books reviews, author interviews, and articles. The "Books for Keeps" website says it includes more than 12,500 reviews and more than 2,000 articles and interviews and quotes Philip Pullman as saying it is "the most important periodical in the world of British children's books." Brian Alderson (writer), founder of the Children's Books History Society and former Children's Book Editor for "The Times", writes a "Classics in Short" section in the magazine's back pages. Books for Keeps also publishes