Pierre Veber

[1] His family was quite large, as he himself points out in the preface to the book X… Roman Impromptu: "If seventy cities vie for the honour of having given birth to me, it's not because I'm ten times more famous than Homer, but simply because the name I bear is more common.

He is also the grandfather of screenwriter and film director Francis Veber, and the great-grandfather of author Sophie Audouin-Mamikonian.

"[2] By 1889, his work had already been published in the literary periodical Gil Blas, as André Antoine says in his journal[3] entry from 25: "This evening, Rue Blanche, we are being visited by two newcomers, Tristan Bernard and Pierre Veber, two young journalists of great intellect who, each week, write for Gil Blas, a news magazine illustrated by Jean Veber."

In 1892, Pierre Veber contributed to the magazine Le Chasseur de Chevelures (The Hunter of Locks), under the guidance of Tristan Bernard.

"[4] Pierre Veber was a prolific writer, who, with a forty-year long career, produced around one hundred slapstick comedies, vaudevilles, opera libretti; and nearly fifty novels and collections of short stories, along with tales both humorous and ironic.

Veber also wrote some short stories in collaboration with French writer Henry Gauthier-Villars (Willy).