Brigadier Gerard and glory, he is always ready with a stirring speech or a gallant remark to a lady. Conan 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 Gerard's baffled point of view – English manners and attitudes. Gerard tells the stories from the point of view of an old man now living in retirement in Paris. We discover that he was born in Gascony in the early 1780s (he is 25 in "How the Brigadier Captured Saragossa"). In "How
Gerard Jones Gerard Jones Gerard Jones (born July 10, 1957) is an American writer, known primarily for his non-fiction work about American culture and media, and his comic book scripting for various publishers. He was sentenced to six years of imprisonment in 2018 for possession of child pornography. Jones was born in Cut Bank, Montana, and raised in the California towns of Los Gatos and Gilroy. From 1983 to 1988, Jones and Will Jacobs were contributors to "National Lampoon" magazine. They also wrote "The Beaver Papers" – a book parodying the TV series "Leave It to Beaver" – and "The Comic Book