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
Gerard of Csanád (encompassing present-day Banat in Serbia, Romania and Hungary) around 1030. Benedictine monks who could speak Hungarian helped him to preach among the local inhabitants. Most information of Gerard was not preserved in impartial sources, but in his hagiographies. The "Short Life of Saint Gerard", which was composed around 1100, is an abridgement of an earlier biography. The earlier biography did not survive. The "Short Life" primarily presents Gerard as a bishop. The majority of scholars regard the "Short Life" the most reliable source of Gerard's life. The "Long Life of Saint Gerard" is a compilation of multiple sources, including the