Jean Bart (writer)

Jean Bart (c.1876 – 1955; pseudonym of Marie Antoinette Sarlabous) was a French-born American playwright and screenwriter.

She began writing silent film scenarios under her married name in 1915, but after America entered the Great War she adopted as a pen name that of the French naval hero, Jean Bart.

[5] She married Dr. Emile Joseph Sarlabous[fn 1] on June 14, 1900, at the St. Peter's Episcopal Church in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan.

[8] The marriage, under the then prevailing concept of coverture, automatically granted her the legal standing of her husband, and so she become a naturalized US citizen.

The couple had one child, Germaine Emilie Sarlabous, born in Manhattan, who married Joseph Fields.